#ron

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#am #art #doing #end #i

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#changes #come #deal #difficult #emotionally

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances. ↗

— David Friedman

#comfortable #front #going #i #people

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bennett #patron #patron saint #saint #them

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#downside #environment #fertilizer #golf #great

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support. ↗

— Anna Friel

#background #bit #footballers #i #i think

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. ↗

— Anna Friel

#addict #away #baby #because #been

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. ↗

— Bill Frist

#clean #clean water #confronts #cooperation #currency

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#embrace #faculty #human #incompatible #just