Chuck Close Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
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New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
