M. C. Escher Quotes
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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I want to be a major force.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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My mother died when I was very young. I didn't want to be in the position I was in, but I eventually pulled my head out of the sand, started listening to people, and decided to use my role for good. I am now fired up and energized and love charity stuff, meeting people, and making them laugh.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
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Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
