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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"Silence is the wit of fools."
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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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"Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done."
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
Fool
"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
Time
"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
Beginning
"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris."
God
"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
Art
"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
Pretty
"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
Art
"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
Life
"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
Life
"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
Actor
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