"My mother was the influence on me -……" — Maira Kalman
"My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes."
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27 Quotes by Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman has 27 quotes on this site.
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I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'
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Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
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A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as…
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Every Monday morning is new hope.
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What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work…
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Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.
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Go out and walk. That is the glory of life,
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The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.
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Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many…
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My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook.…
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I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute…
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We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism,…
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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