Manoj Bhargava Quotes
My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.
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I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.
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I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
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For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.
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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
