Chuck Close Quotes

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Chuck Close

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FatherMotherFaithTeacherAmbition

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Joely Fisher

HistoryLovedPsychology

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Andrew Vachss

RisksLawyerGuiltyInnocentPerson

We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.

Robert Kennedy

FreedomTogetherManBetterLabor

NYU was my comfort zone.

Amy Heckerling

Comfort ZoneComfortZoneNYU

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

MoneyBlackThinkMoralityUpset

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

Ruggiero Ricci

GoodTimeYouPlayThreeDifficult

My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

Louis Begley

WorkSafetyWorldBookYearMatter

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Joyce Meyer

MarriageTragedyWantTriumphOur

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Don McLean

CreationLivingThreadPositionHeld

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

Dick Cavett

ComedySomeoneSizeSeeComics

I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.

DeAngelo Williams

MoneyTravelMeDoorsNFLGot

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

Christina Ricci

CharacterGreatTimeThinkLongYou

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