Fernando Botero Quotes
Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I'm very content.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
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The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
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A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.
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Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
