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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.


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Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists



Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.



All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.



This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.



And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.



If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.



I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.



To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.



If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.



We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.





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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

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You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.



Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.



Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.




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