Frank Stella Quotes

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

Frank Stella

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PeopleWorldViewLawyersAbstract

I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.

Joe R. Lansdale

SmallDoneNothingMeanAlwaysWest

I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

PositiveManLooksMatterSelf-Image

Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.

John Linder

LifeValuesTerrorismWillWayOur

Pay respect to your opponent.

Jeff Fisher

RespectOpponentPayYour

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

Michael Hirst

PeopleYouCreateBe NiceKnowNice

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Michael Bloomberg

CommunityReligionGovernmentThink

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.

Stephen Root

BestPeopleThinkDoingYouWant

People like to know you're listening, and something as simple as a clarification question shows not only that you are listening but that you also care about what they're saying. You'll be surprised how much respect and appreciation you gain just by asking good questions.

Travis Bradberry

GoodRespectSimpleAppreciationYou

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

Trevor Paglen

ReligionIdeasAlwaysSymbolsRole

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

Roger Mahony

CommunityHealingLookingSeeingUs

It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

Roberto Clemente

BadI CanBallHit

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

Lucy Larcom

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