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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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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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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What keeps me going is that young people still want to see me.
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.
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'Cold?' Reacher said. 'This is nothing.'
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.
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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.
