Cennino Cennini (Cennino d'Andrea Cennini) Quotes
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
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Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake
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I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.
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Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.
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I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.
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I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.
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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
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Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world’s most endangered class of animals; it’s been calculated that the group’s extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate. But extinction rates among many other groups are approaching amphibian levels. It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys. If you know how to look, you can probably find signs of the current extinction event in your own backyard.
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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
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NATO continues, using ultimatums, to insist Belgrade and the entire international community accept the alliance's demands.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.
