"don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous."
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"As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense."
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"Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real."
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"You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big."
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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
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"One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music."
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"Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed."
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"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
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"Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette."
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"When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police."
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"The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print."
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"How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement."
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"Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other."
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"Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation."
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"Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human."
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"There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job."
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"All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs."
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"If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?"
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"I get my highlights touched up with Susan Henry at Shades in Beverly Hills. She developed hypo-allergenic hair color products with no ammonia because she's allergic to others; she's an incredible colorist. She does balayage instead of the foils, and I'll go and she will do my entire head of highlights in an hour."
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"The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first."
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