Francoise Gilot Quotes
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
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I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.
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Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
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I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.
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I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
