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 thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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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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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
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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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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
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Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.
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The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present. (p. 193)
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I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.
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There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'
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The pages are so harmonious in their proportion / disharmony in the contents is impossible.
