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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To taste fully is to live fully.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
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The gentlest and most insidious way we are dominated by the body politic is by the official versions of the good life that are implicit in advertising and propaganda. Happiness is a new car, a color TV-fill in the gap with your own 'freely chosen' artificially stimulated desire.
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At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.
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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.
