Amedeo Modigliani Quotes
With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
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And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.
