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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #big #big band #biggest #completed

So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started. ↗

— Nelly

#appreciate #done #doors #first #going

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#agree #america #american #answer #basic

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#being #care #children #day #little

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight. ↗

— Don Nelson

#fight #finley #fought #guy #mavericks

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#culture #environmental #environmental issue #ethic #important

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#did #fleetwood #fleetwood mac #high #high school

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #complicated #franklin #franklin roosevelt #geometric

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#discovered #fairly #inevitably #keeping #many

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed. ↗

— Haywood Nelson

#close #family #i #never #stayed