Eduardo Chillida Quotes
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.
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The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.
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You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
