Chris Ofili Quotes
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.
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War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
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I'm sort of a slob.
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Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
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The most recent scientific evidence is both overwhelming and shocking-what we feed (or don't feed) our children as they grow from birth to early adulthood has a greater total contributory effect on the dietary contribution to cancers than dietary intake over the next fifty years.
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I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans.
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As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.
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For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.
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Change is not indecision.
