Amedeo Modigliani Quotes
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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I have no kicks at all The fact is I'm pretty happy about the whole thing...I enjoy this country. I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this Government does.
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I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.
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We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.
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Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
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The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.
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That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
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I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out on top. That's what drove me all the time. But I had fun. I did better every day, and that's what made it fun.
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
