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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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
