Frida Kahlo Quotes

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Guy

• I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stand

• Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Respect
  • Leadership

• I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Community
  • Independence
  • Big

• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Story
  • Own
  • Ending

• I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • People
  • Real
  • Girl

• Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Commercial

• I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • Play
  • Picture

• Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Money
  • Want
  • Fight

• On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Something
  • Only
  • Originality

• As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Thought
  • Problems

• It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Game

• But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • City

• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'

  

  Debbie Macomber
  • School

• I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

  

  Jeff Fahey
  • Good

• You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

  

  Jay-Z
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

  

  Chris Cooper
  • Work
  • Freedom

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

  

  Frida Kahlo