Francisco Goya Quotes

I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me.

Francisco Goya

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• You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Start

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • End
  • Consciousness
  • Torture

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Night
  • Sports

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Story
  • Mankind

• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Respect
  • Doing
  • Canada

• I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Game
  • Know
  • Angry

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Want
  • You
  • Style

• There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Heart
  • Story
  • Secrets

• I like to play with tropes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Play
  • Like

• I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reading

• What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Lost
  • Service
  • Clear

• I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.

  

  Lydia Davis
  • Long
  • Beginning

• Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Forgotten

• So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Long
  • Friends

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• All I really care about is making great music and putting on great shows. I think, to do that, you have to be fearless. It certainly doesn't help to be insecure.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Great
  • Music
  • Help

• I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me.

  

  Francisco Goya