El Greco Quotes
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
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One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.
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As Africans, long before the arrival of religion and the gospel, we had our own ways of doing things, ... Those were times that the religious people refer to as dark days but we know that, during those times, there were no orphans or old-age homes. Christianity has brought along these things.
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Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?
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Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
