Antoni Tapies Quotes
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
Adam Grant
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
Gayle Forman
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
Taylor Swift
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
Karen Salmansohn
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
Vince Cable
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
Baz Luhrmann
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Camryn Manheim
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
Vera Wang
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What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.
Sam Yagan
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
Usher
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
Rainn Wilson
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Brown Campbell
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
T. J. Thyne
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
Karen Allen
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I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.
Max Schneider
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As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven’t heard of some of them.
Donald Barthelme
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
Halsey
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
Jack Ramsay
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Radiohead showed a real affinity to being bold with visual imagery, so it came as no surprise when Jonny Greenwood did 'There Will Be Blood.'
John Hillcoat
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My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Antoni Tapies