Francisco Goya Quotes
No recognition / Nadie se conoce' Goya wrote on this plate no. 6: The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.
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With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World
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No recognition / Nadie se conoce' Goya wrote on this plate no. 6: The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself.
