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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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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I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
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I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now it's down to eight.
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You're beautiful as you feel.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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If our binoculars search for our partner’s best intent, it will usually be found.
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In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
