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I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper

Find, Lead, Oil

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper

Property, Cracking, Scaling

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.
Chris Rock

School, Stolen, Invented

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld

Best, Help, Give

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

Great, Made, Place

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
Desmond Tutu

Trying, Hear, Goodness

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

Person, Why, Cannot

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
Desmond Tutu

Death, Sunday, Mean

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
Dick Gregory

Black, King, Enjoying

There will be no whitewash in the White House.
Richard M. Nixon

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
Keith Richards

Black, Whether, Concern

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush

Someone, May, Him

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
Chris Rock

Love, Famous, Almost

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
Chris Rock

College, Makes, House

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
Newt Gingrich

Experience, Woman, Racism

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.
Donald Rumsfeld

House, Wants, Buildings

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
Donald Rumsfeld

Work, Last, House

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
Christopher Hitchens

Faith, Science, Made

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Selfish, Why, After

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Simple, Past

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Rather, Alive

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.
Jerry Saltz

Bad, Help, Special

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Happy, Sometimes

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Brian Molko

Black, Desire, Attraction

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.
Jack White

Life, Important, Happen

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy Carter

Government, Pretty, Same

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
Jesse Owens

President, House, Either

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.
Chris Rock

Love, Famous, Almost

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
Bill Maher

Today, Give, After

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'
Demetri Martin

God, Home, School

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