Nishan Quotes
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I want to have a long career.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
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I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
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Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly.
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In French there is an old expression, 'la patte', meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and all that retinal painting.
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My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I respect hugely how he brought Russia back from its knees.
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The world is full of nice people. If you cant find one, be one.
