Gerhard Richter Quotes
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
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What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
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Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in high school... it was more of an extracurricular thing.
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I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
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Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.
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Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
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I have no problem with television as a genre.
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We wanted to win the game. I don't care about the 8-and-8. I wanted to take care of business and we did not do that.
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Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.
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My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.
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I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
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Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
