Ian McLeod Quotes

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

Ian McLeod

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  • America

• The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

  

  Valentino Rossi
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• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
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• I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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  • Boxing

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
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  • Family
  • Dad

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

  

  Ted Danson
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• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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  • Painter

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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  • History
  • Events

• I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

  

  Yoko Ono
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  • Family
  • Born

• It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
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  • Maintain

• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
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• I don't judge anybody who chose not to serve during Vietnam, at all. It's a different time, and I don't judge anybody for the decision they made.

  

  Jason Kander
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• Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

  

  Patti Smith

• I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
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  • Up
  • Friendships

• I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

  

  Ian McLeod
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  • Art