Fernando Botero Quotes

I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

Fernando Botero

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• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  

  Karl Malone
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• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

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• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• You can't control where your heart goes.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
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• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
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• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
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• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
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• I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
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• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
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• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

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  • People
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• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

  

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  • Communication
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• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

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  • Medical
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• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Trust
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  • Save

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
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• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
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• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

  

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• Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
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• Law enforcement agents need to be vetted more thoroughly and psychologically and emotionally to see who they are, if they're really built for fairness in all communities.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • Law

• I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.

  

  Mary McGarry Morris
  • Life
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• I don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Life
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• Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI

• In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Money
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• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Painting