Peter Greenaway Quotes
The pages are so harmonious in their proportion / disharmony in the contents is impossible.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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I'm very free-spirited.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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Homère est un des génies qui résolvent ce beau problème de l’art, le plus beau de tous peut-être, la peinture vraie de l’humanité obtenue par le grandissement de l’homme, c’est-à-dire la génération du réel dans l’idéal.
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In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.
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Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
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With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
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I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.
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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly
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The pages are so harmonious in their proportion / disharmony in the contents is impossible.
