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He Quotes
Third-person praise, from the field to the set.
This page collects quotes that describe someone else directly — a scouting comment on a hitter's known weakness, and warm praise for a footballer's skill and standing among peers. For identity-focused sayings, see Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
- Children
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
- Drops
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
- Just Because
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Just because it's physically impossible for Steve Buscemi to be in every movie doesn't mean he's not capable of dramatically improving them all.
- Practice
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
- Must
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