Kenneth Clark Quotes
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I'm a composer, man.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.
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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.
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I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.
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Love is intense, and sadness is intense.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
