Salvador Dali Quotes
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.
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The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
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I've been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in 'Jewel In The Crown.'
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
