Aristotle Quotes
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
Quotes to Explore
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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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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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I was in a convent for a year.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost has a Picasso feel to it. I remember that Rusty Young, the lead singer of the band, said, 'I want you to draw a horse for the song 'Legend,' which is about a phantom spirit horse. I want you to do it in several lines.'
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Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.
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We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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What does get hard is when I'm put in the box of, 'Oh, she just woke up one day, did a reality show, and decided she wants to be a singer.' That's offensive, and it's not the case with me.
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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
