Pablo Picasso Quotes

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
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Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.
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I use Shazam all the time.
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One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.
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Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.