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  • Bill Dickey A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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  • Henry Ford Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Boris Johnson But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Willis I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Martin Luther King If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Barnett Newman It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antonin Artaud No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Barbara Olson The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Anthony Trollope The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sandburg They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
    Chicago l. 6 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Stephen Bayley Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Pablo Picasso What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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