Chuck Close Quotes

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

Chuck Close

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Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Jim Cooper

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You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

Jerry Moran

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Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

John Agyekum Kufuor

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The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators are supporting that concept.

John Battelle

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You pick a project. You think, 'I can succeed at this. I can help them. I can make it so that they'll want to call me again the next time.'

John Lee Hancock

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What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

Steve Mann

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It's interesting in seeing when I'm talking to men in particular and telling them I'm an actress versus a director and the different turn the conversation will take when I say I'm a director. The level of respect is very interesting.

Miriam Shor

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Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

Joyce Giraud

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As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.

Clyde Edgerton

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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

William Least Heat-Moon

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It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

William Graham Sumner

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While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.

Peter Agre

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