Diego Rivera Quotes
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
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There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.
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Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions. ...there is another outlook than the scientific one, because in practice a more transcendental outlook is almost universally admitted. ...who does not prize these moments that reveal to us the poetry of existence?
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The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.
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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
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Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.
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Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
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As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
