Gerhard Richter Quotes
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
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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.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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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.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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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.
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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.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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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.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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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.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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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.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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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.
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Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.
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After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.
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It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
