Michelangelo Quotes
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
Quotes to Explore
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
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I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.
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Science has adapted itself entirely to the wealthy classes and accordingly has set itself to heal those who can afford everything, and it prescribes the same methods for those who have nothing to spare.
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Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
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All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.
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I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
