Jacques-Louis David Quotes
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.
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Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.
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The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet
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If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.
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To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
