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  • Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at all, whether painterly, social or aesthetic. I tried to find nothing too explicit, hence all the banal subjects; and then, again, I tried to avoid letting the banal turn into my issue and my trademark. So it's all evasive action, in a way.

    Art   Issues   Choices  
    Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
  • The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  • A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.

    Sex   Math   Thinking  
  • There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

    "'Parks and Recreation's' Nick Offerman on Mustaches and Being Tackled by Robin Givens (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 15, 2011.
  • It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

  • I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well-known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.

    Believe   Want   Matter  
    "King of Heels Manolo Blahnik Reveals the One Occassion When Women Must Wear Flats". Interview with Sophia Chabbott, www.glamour.com. September 13, 2015.
  • It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.

    Player   Guitar   People  
    Source: www.goldminemag.com
  • It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.

    Alfred Adler (2013). “Understanding Human Nature (Psychology Revivals)”, p.128, Routledge
  • Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

    Liars   Self   Dust  
    "Correspondence From Hell: Part 3". Cerebus, issue 219, 2003.
  • My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

    Art   Growing Up   Father  
  • Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

    Time   Thinking   Vanity  
  • Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.

    Winning   Chef   Winner  
  • I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

  • I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.

    Richard Price (1983). “The Correspondence of Richard Price: February 1786-February 1791”
  • I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.

    Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin, but they are apt to become rusted with resentment and exhaustion. Since there is great truth in the well-known statement "We teach people how to treat us," you can start teaching others to shower you with appreciation by showering yourself first.

  • Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

  • You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.

    Clothes   Shy   May  
    Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.433, Simon and Schuster
  • It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

    Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press
  • I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

    Art   Would Be   Rich  
    "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.
  • It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

    "Memories of mischief". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
  • I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

    Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.
  • In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

    Quoted in Jean Renoir, Renoir My Father (1958)
  • I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

    Book   Saws   Well Known  
    "Foiled in the United States, Anti-Gay Evangelicals Spread Hate in Africa". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2013.
  • Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe - safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.

    Pain   Loss   Marijuana  
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