Barbara Hepworth Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.
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Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.
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My parents are like religious atheists.
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Sculpture, to me, is primitive, religious, passionate, and magical.
