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• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• Me a playboy?! You must be joking. But playing something like Robert Redford's role in Indecent Proposal would be a pleasant surprise.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Wonder

• I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

  

  Chris Pratt

• If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

  

  Loni Love
  • Money
  • Confidence

• I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Women
  • Children
  • Suffering

• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Performing

• If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Music
  • Moments

• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Inspiration
  • Perish
  • Deteriorate

• I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Way
  • Anger
  • Valid

• Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Fiction

• When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

  

  will.i.am
  • School
  • Mom
  • Dresses

• The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Instinct
  • Insects
  • Brutes

• Rotten wood cannot be carved.

  

  Confucius
  • Wood
  • Rotten
  • Carved

• If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.

  

  Nouriel Roubini
  • Fear
  • Greed
  • Risks

• I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Idea
  • Newspapers
  • Pants

• And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • May
  • Police
  • Force

• I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • People
  • Political
  • Communication

• Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

  

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