Ernesto Neto Quotes
In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.
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When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
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My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.
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Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
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I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
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My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.
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I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.
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We had no money, and we had to go through 'punk' school. We ended up living in the rehearsal room that used to be the Sex Pistols rehearsal room at Malcolm McLaren's office. So we had this sort of interesting beginning.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
