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"Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life."
"I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on."
"Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them."
"A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target."
"Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane."
"I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way."
"It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!"
"Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down."
"Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness."
"The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life."
"When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat."
"The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back."
"There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. Thats just encouraging and inspiring."
"Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people."
"The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually."
"Food to eat and games to play. Tell me why, tell me why. Serve it out and eat it up. Have a try, have a try."
"The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much."
"Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment."
"I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard."
"If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart."
