Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I don't like to look typical.
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Numb3rs' was a wonderful gift because I had not worked in six months. It was so fun to be on that set doing these crazy things.
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Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
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Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.
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I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
