Eduardo Chillida Quotes
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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I am most anxious to get into my London painting-room, for I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. I have done a good deal of skying for I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that among the rest.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
