Johan Santana Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
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I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
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We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.