Jacques Maritain Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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In many ways my paintings are about energy - both in how they are created and the image itself.
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They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.
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Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
