Gerhard Richter Quotes
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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I don't feel famous.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
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I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.
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It's inevitable that everyone's first drawing they draw is much like their fingerprint. It's inescapable that one has an identifiable style. It's not a major issue with me, but I never wanted to have a distinctive signature style so much.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.
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I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.