Paul Mellon Quotes
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
Xenophanes
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
Laura Linney
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
Maggie Q
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
Kara Walker
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Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
Cara Delevingne
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My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
Oona Chaplin
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
Natalie Massenet
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
Jacob Bronowski
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My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.
Jennifer Lynch
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The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you're nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.
Jim Parrack
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May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.
Facundo Cabral
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
Anton Rubinstein
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It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
Vandana Shiva
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The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.
Marianne Williamson
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If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
Marianne Williamson
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Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.
Bisco Hatori
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I want to score 50 goals. It's my dream.
Evgeni Malkin
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I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.
Raashi Khanna
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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
Albert Camus
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It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
Paul Mellon