Marcel Duchamp Quotes

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.

Marcel Duchamp

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• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

  

  Iman
  • Black
  • Down
  • Modeling

• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Love
  • Positive

• I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Remain

• I would love to do Broadway again.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Again
  • Broadway

• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Morning
  • Friendship

• I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Value

• No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Job
  • Free

• That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

  

  Larry Wall

• Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hand

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Different
  • Long
  • Player

• 'Happy Valley' has really changed things for me.

  

  James Norton
  • Happy

• 'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Song

• If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Present
  • Baby

• The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

  

  Paul Michael Glaser
  • Character
  • Car
  • Popularity

• If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

  

  Donna Karan
  • World
  • Today
  • Motorcycle

• When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

  

  Charles Lyell

• I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.

  

  Marcel Duchamp