Ernst Gombrich Quotes
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.
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Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.
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With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.
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I expected results.
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Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
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When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.
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Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.
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If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.
