Don McLean Quotes

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.

Don McLean

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WorkFamilyArtNew YorkGoodbye

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

Jimmy Connors

TimeBestStepMindBackOut

I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.

Andy Cohen

PositiveGreatHappyGoAlwaysBig

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

Andy Warhol

JobArtistDirectorJob Description

You can tell everything from the eyes.

Jeff Buckley

EyesYouEverythingTell

I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo.

Molly Ivins

CultureManSchoolStupidTexas

I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?

Jason Wiles

FunnyCharacterOpportunityFunMe

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

Donna Brazile

JusticeBestLawRevisionOnlyOur

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

Bob Woodward

OpportunityPeopleRespondGiveBeen

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

August Wilson

BluesCallBeingBeenFourPrimary

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Sharon Stone

LifeTimePeopleMeIdeasThink

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Huxley

TruthTimeEverythingAgainstWhose

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Thomas Browne

PassionFaithRebelReason

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