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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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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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.
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The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
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So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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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.
