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"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid."
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"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes."

"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."

"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."

"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."

"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
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"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."

"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."

"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."

"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did."

"Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it."

"You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much."

"The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning."

"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid."
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