Ari Marcopoulos Quotes
I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . .
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I really like performing for people.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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We can set it as a goal that taxes on labor would be even lower in Hungary... that we will have the cheapest energy in Europe, and that all those who want to work would have a job.
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
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Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.
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We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.
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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . .
