Raymond Pettibon Quotes
It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
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Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
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The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
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I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.
