Albrecht Durer Quotes
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.
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Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.
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In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.
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Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
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Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
