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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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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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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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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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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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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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
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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.
