Ernesto Neto Quotes
In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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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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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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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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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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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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The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
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There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
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I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.
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While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
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In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
