Francisco Goya Quotes
I had established an enviable scheme of life. I refused to dance attendance in the ante-chambers of the great. If anyone wanted something from me he had to ask. I was much run after, but if the person was not of rank, or a friend, I worked painted for nobody.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
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You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
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Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.
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There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
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I had established an enviable scheme of life. I refused to dance attendance in the ante-chambers of the great. If anyone wanted something from me he had to ask. I was much run after, but if the person was not of rank, or a friend, I worked painted for nobody.
