Fernando Botero Quotes
Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.
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Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
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You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them.
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Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
