Gerhard Richter Quotes
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
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Think your own thoughts.
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
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I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
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I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.
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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
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Painting is another form of thinking.
