El Greco Quotes
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
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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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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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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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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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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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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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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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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
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I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
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No occupation is more tiresome or depressing than that of killing time. It is the cause of lifeweariness, the punishment the soul inflicts upon itself when reduced to passiveness and servitude.
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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.
