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• Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  New York, Taken, Alive

  "Interview by William Wright". as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p.144, Summer 1950.

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• Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

  John Frusciante

  Dream, Space, Black

  Song: Wind Up Space, Album: To Record Only Water For Ten Days, 2006

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• The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.

  Michael Lewis

  Self, People, Dumb

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Seven years I worked at the Polish deli. It's a very slow deli. So I sat around a lot on my stool at the cashier. And I'd sign my autograph on all the bags I'd put the milk in. Just everyday, practice my autograph. And the manager of the store would take some of them and tape them against the wall. And he'd say, "Some day, I'm telling you, it will be worth something." And I'm like 13, going, "Really?!" And when I go back there, he still has them on the wall. It's very cute.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Cute, Years, Practice

  "Interview: Jenny Mccarthy" with Jenny Mccarthy, www.ign.com. September 21, 2005.

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• But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

  Rufus Wainwright

  Biblical, Thinking, Ceilings

  Song: Jericho, Album: Out of the Game, 2012

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• 'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Men, Glasses, Unity

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• I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.

  Harry Houdini

  Mean, Men, Way

  "The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini‎". Book by Ruth Brandon, p. 153, 1993.

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• Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Lying, Mind, Insulation

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• The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Sky, Brighter

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• Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

  Charles Stross

  Running, Real, Writing

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.388, Penguin

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• I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.

  William Baziotes

  Eye, Feet, Movement

  "Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics". Book by Clifford Ross, 1990.

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• Those who aren't caught up into this bigotry, this hatred, those who respect us when they see us. Then you have an obligation also, the good ones. To make sure you say to the others, that this blue wall of silence must come down and that everybody must be treated equally.

  Kweisi Mfume

  Blue, Silence, Hatred

  "Cincinnati under curfew after days of violent protests". www.cnn.com. April 13, 2001.

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• Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Fashion, Sleep

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• I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

  Scott Kahn

  Country, Done, Buying

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• If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

  Simon Heffer

  Writing, Scotland, Hadrian

  1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.

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• The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Together, Cracks, World

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• The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.

  Chris Abani

  Fashion, Home, Thinking

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

  Albert Kesselring

  Age, Faces, Four

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

  Kevin Leman

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Why Your Best Is Good Enough”, p.212, Revell

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• Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .

  R. S. Thomas

  Book, Names, People

  R. S. Thomas, “A Welsh Testament”

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• The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

  Lu Tong

  Pain, Loneliness, Blow

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• Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spring, Light, House

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• Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Machines, Agents

  1983 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

  Helen Thomas

  Fate, Break Through, America

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Eye, Reality, Color

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