Charles Saatchi Quotes
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
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Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
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This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative".
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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
