Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
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Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.
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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.
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I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
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I find most children quite inspiring.
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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
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Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.
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Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'
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Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.
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I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.
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I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
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I drink protein shakes when I travel. That is how I maintain myself, and I exercise six days a week.
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Travelling can be tiresome, other than that it's fine. The touring thing, the travelling was always a bit of a drag and it doesn't get any easier.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
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'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
