Constantin Brancusi Quotes
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Quotes to Explore
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.
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Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
