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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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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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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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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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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.
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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.
