Auguste Renoir Quotes
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Quotes to Explore
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.
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Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
