Gerhard Richter Quotes

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Gerhard Richter

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• I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Cool

• If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • God
  • Dead

• A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Man
  • Mistake
  • Same

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
  • Smart
  • Relationships

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Private

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Moment

• If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • God
  • Money
  • Knows

• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Comedy

• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Apple
  • Colleagues
  • Pixar

• The most clear way to decide the actor is to watch them doing stuff during their downtime. When they do something that's making both of you laugh, you see if there's a character or situation that could be written into.

  

  Mike O'Brien
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Making

• The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Remember
  • United States
  • Israelis

• Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Learning
  • Imagination
  • Burning

• It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Idea
  • Find
  • Occur