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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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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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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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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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
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Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
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The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.
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Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.
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The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'
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I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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.
