Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
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• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
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• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
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• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

  

  Dan Gable
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• I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

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• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
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• There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

  

  Ben Zobrist
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• There is no question in my mind that Zionists, these Jewish radicals that they dominate Hollywood, nobody argues about the show you in the Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein bragging about it.

  

  David Duke
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• Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20

  

  Alberto Giacometti
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