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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  • Man
  • Blessings

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

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• 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
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• 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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  • Hero
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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
  • Mind
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  • Accomplish

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

  

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

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
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  • No Regrets

• 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
  • People
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  • Support

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

  

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

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Time
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  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
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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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• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Possible
  • Begins

• Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Game
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• I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Writing
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• It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • People
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• I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

  

  Action Bronson
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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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