Cy Twombly Quotes
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?
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...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job.
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I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
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What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.
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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.
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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
