Francisco Goya Quotes

Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.

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• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
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• I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

  

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• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

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• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
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• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Helping
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• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Small
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• I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.

  

  Magdalena Frackowiak
  • Like
  • Look
  • Makeup

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
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• In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Weird
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• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

  Nanci Griffith
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• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
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• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
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• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
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• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
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  • Silence

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Depth
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• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Time
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• I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • College
  • Comedy

• Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Mother
  • Imagination