Francis Picabia Quotes
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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Space has always been confusing to politics.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
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Always stay true to yourselves.
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
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The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and different phase shifts - it's as if I were picking out up to eight individual pixels in this large field of view.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
