Edgar Degas Quotes

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

Edgar Degas

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• Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.

  

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• I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

  

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• There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

  

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• Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

  

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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

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• Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

  

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• I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

  

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• I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

  

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• When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

  

  Adam Jones
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• What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

  

  Halima Aden
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• Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

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• I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.

  

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• I think the truth is black-and-white.

  

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• But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

  

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• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

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• People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

  

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• I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

  

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• Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.

  

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• My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.

  

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• I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

  

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• The food doesn't matter, really. What it evokes does.

  

  Amanda Hesser
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• I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

  

  Edgar Degas