Joshua Reynolds Quotes
It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight.
Joshua Reynolds
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver North
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
Olly Murs
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
Dana Snyder
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Tabitha Soren
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
Walter Mosley
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
Randall Jarrell
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She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - 'While you live Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return'.
Omar Khayyam
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A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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New cell phones are my weakness.
Duncan D. Hunter
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It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
Kurt Busch
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When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
Jo Stafford
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There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go to kickboxing class every morning at 5 A.M. You know, try to do all the things to take care of the outside of your body, but you also should do - and have to do things that take care of the inside of your body.
Darlene Love
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Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.
Jeb Bush
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It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
David Brin
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
Gabriela Mistral
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
Daddy Yankee
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Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.
Bjorn Lomborg
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He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
David Seabury
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It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight.
Joshua Reynolds
