Francis Picabia Quotes
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
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He Goya has selected from amongst the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance or self-interest have made usual..
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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Hardworking women are the foundation of Arkansas's success. But we must do more to ensure that all of our mothers, sisters, and daughters are protected and that they have the choices available to make the best decisions for them and their families.
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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
