Peter Greenaway Quotes
It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth - a book of drawings and diagrams of human anatomy. Beautiful drawings but - as the pages turn - terrible in their frankness...Peter Greenaway
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power -
Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
Patrick Lencioni -
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
Naomi Klein -
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo -
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
Larry Page -
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Verne Troyer
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker -
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister -
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Candice Patton -
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston -
The good romances are as good as anything.
Karen Robards -
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
R. L. Stine -
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
Rachel Joyce -
I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
Barry Jenkins -
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
Fatema Mernissi -
I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
Vin Diesel -
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot.
Lakshmi Mittal -
Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.
Matt Bomer -
The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.
James Murphy -
It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth - a book of drawings and diagrams of human anatomy. Beautiful drawings but - as the pages turn - terrible in their frankness...
Peter Greenaway