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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Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
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In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.
