Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of thousands of different regulations, customs, vendors - it's a monster. So the only way to do that is with technology. It really is rocket science.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
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To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.
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The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
