Auguste Renoir Quotes
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
Mara Liasson
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
T. J. Perkins
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
F. Sionil Jose
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci
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I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.
Bipasha Basu
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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
Jack Reed
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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
Joseph Brodsky
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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
F. Sionil José
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You're so privileged to be there, you feel like you have to complain about something just so you don't have to think about how lucky you are. It's kind of over compensation, I think, when I'm feeling generous about it. Or, when I'm not, I think maybe it's just the basic requirement of being a teenager, feeling like you have to be perfect every time, and when you have an algebra test or a hangnail, the rest of the war-torn, poverty-stricken, deformed world ought to turn its attention to you.
Rachel DeWoskin
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir