Niki de Saint Phalle Quotes
I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
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I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.
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When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.
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It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.
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You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.
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I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
