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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
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There is nothing so stable as change.
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I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
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I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
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Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
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Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
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You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
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At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
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The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.
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My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
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I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
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What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
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You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
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Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
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I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.