Gerhard Richter Quotes
Art serves to establish community. It links us with others and with the things around us, in a shared vision and effort.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
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On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.
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I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.
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Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.
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Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.
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Art serves to establish community. It links us with others and with the things around us, in a shared vision and effort.
