Arnold Friberg Quotes
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.
Quotes to Explore
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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We do not want to alienate supporters.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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My heart always belongs to the one who doesn't want it.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.
