Michelangelo Quotes

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Think
  • Negative
  • Nostalgia

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Pain
  • Water

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Cap

• I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Lucky
  • Grateful
  • Fortunate

• It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Fun
  • Day
  • One Day

• If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Up
  • May
  • Law

• I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

• The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Power
  • Together

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Three
  • Too Much
  • Four

• Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Simple

• Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Married
  • Bedroom

• You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Space
  • Honor
  • Recovering

• There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Political
  • Water

• If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

  

  Michelangelo
  • People
  • Genius
  • My Art