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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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 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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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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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
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While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.
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History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
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With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.
