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When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
- Syd Barrett
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
- Wally Schirra
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I would love 'Patsy' to join the ranks of superhero comics that have something for everybody and are new-reader-friendly, with an adventure every issue.
- Kate Leth
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My father did advertising photography.
- Andreas Gursky
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A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
- Georges Rouault
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According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
- Mark Tobey
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A great painting is a great painting.
- Larry Poons
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I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.
- Jamie Hewlett
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
- Dan Scanlon
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All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.
- Maurice Denis
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I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
- Ben Shahn
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#Myself
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Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
- Mary Cassatt
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It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.
- Olafur Eliasson
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It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
- John Baldessari
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I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.
- Francis Alys
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I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast.
- Jamie Wyeth
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I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
- Lawrence Halprin
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My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
- Bernard Tschumi
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
- Norton Juster
#Anything
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#Whatever
#Young
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
- Stephen Gardiner
#Dead
#Egypt
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#Were
It's because I feel comfortable that way... not wearing a bra looks more natural and prettier.
- Sulli
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
- Bea Arthur
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Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can.
- Debby Ryan
#Believe
#Change
#Destination
#Look
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
- Deborah Kerr
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I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.
- Michael Pena
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It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.
- Nolan Sotillo
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#Life
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I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
- Kathy Acker
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#Mean
#Scared
#Work
#Your
When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
- Omar Ahmad
#Politicians
#Start
#Strange
#Tell
#Work
We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
- William Kunstler
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#House
#Western World
#World
I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.
- Heather Mills
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#Right Reason
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Ever since David Cameron took it on himself to prise open Pandora's box and call the E.U. referendum, the only thing that's been predictable has been the utter unpredictability of what has followed.
- Gina Miller
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#Only
#Open
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To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
- Robert Purvis
#Education
#Humanity
#Lie
#Me
#Men
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
- Robert Emmet
#Epitaph
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#Tomb
#Write
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
- Shane Claiborne
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#Love
#Politicians
#Up
#Work
I knew hundreds and hundreds of women like me, who had traveled in and out of prison in a revolving door. They needed support and help just like I had received. And it could make a difference, just like it had made a difference in my life. I wanted to see them come back to the community and have a chance at a different life, too.
- Susan Burton
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#Community
#Life
#Support
#Women
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
- Bob Black
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#Might
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Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how free you are; If we can be violated, so can you.
- Susan Rosenberg
#Free
#Freedom
#Goals
#Political
#Support
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
- Kate Moss
#Cannot
#Good
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#Multitasking
#Women
It's a dream that we, as women footballers, get to play in the same stadium as the men.
- Ali Krieger
#Dream
#Men
#Play
#Stadium
#Women
I love my legs because they make me powerful and they make me feel strong. They've held up ever since I was young and have helped me get where I am today and be this successful.
- Ali Krieger
#Feel
#I Am
#Love
#Me
#Today
I do follow cleansing and hydrate my skin. It is really important. Especially before going to bed, you have to remove make-up, clean your skin, and hydrate your skin.
- Disha Patani
#Bed
#Clean
#Follow
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'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.
- Roma Downey
#Book
#Bought
#Fantastic
#Love
#Rights
For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.
- Charles Schwab
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#Little
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I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.
- Charles Schwab
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#Money
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#School
#Young
You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.
- Charles Schwab
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#Some
#Take
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I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.
- Charles Schwab
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I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
- Charles Schwab
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#Up
#War
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If you asked me whether I would act in a film a year ago, I would have said no. I am just taking things as they come.
- Rhea Pillai
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#Me
#Things
Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.
- Nigel Mansell
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Motor racing is 99 per cent downs and one per cent ups. It's a huge challenge, as there are so many things that can go wrong.
- Nigel Mansell
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The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.
- Anne Donovan
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Pep Guardiola was very good for the Bundesliga.
- Joachim Low
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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
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#Back
#End
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#Power
When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
- Larry Bird
#Anything
#Just
#Never
#School
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Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.
- Henry Sy
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You need to be mentally and physically very strong to go and perform in Australia.
- K. L. Rahul
#Australia
#Go
#Need
#Strong
#Very
In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.
- Blake Griffin
#Fighter
#Going
#Nobody
#Training
#Why
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
- Jessica Savitch
#Correspondent
#Goal
#Network
#Time
Girls should be made aware of the dark reality of human trafficking, right from a young age. High schools and colleges should provide this education, too.
- Richa Chadha
#Age
#Dark
#Education
#Reality
#Young
I think we have to question our own culture.
- Richa Chadha
#Culture
#I Think
#Own
#Question
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Because Bollywood reflects society, we are all living in a society. We are not a special entity. So whatever prejudices society has for us, we carry into the films.
- Richa Chadha
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#Special
#Us
#Whatever
Deep down I think I'm a lovable guy.
- Brad Marchand
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#Guy
#I Think
#Think
If we have to battle through some adversity during the year, sometimes that can be the best thing for a team.
- Brad Marchand
#Adversity
#Battle
#Best
#Sometimes
#Team
It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.
- Brad Marchand
#Good
#Knowing
#Lose
#Tough
#Win
I'm not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.
- Dustin Poirier
#History
#Just
#Look
#Man
#Quitter
I have a pretty high fight IQ.
- Dustin Poirier
#Fight
#High
#IQ
#Pretty
I would have loved to work with Satyajit Ray.
- Nana Patekar
#Loved
#Ray
#Work
#Would
When filming for 'Beowulf,' we were close to Hadrian's Wall; there was no phone signal, and the scenery was spectacular.
- David Harewood
#Close
#Phone
#Scenery
#Spectacular
#Were
If you don't register to vote, politicians don't really care about you: politicians aren't really caring about what you have to say, what you have to do, anything.
- David Harewood
#Care
#Caring
#Politicians
#Say
#Vote
We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.
- David Harewood
#Children
#Go
#Live
#Suffering
#World
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.
- David Harewood
#Boat
#Race
#Understanding
#Up
#Where
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world.
- Ben Schnetzer
#Bond
#Important
#Journey
#Mature
#World
I experienced that the ball is the most important thing. When you have the ball, the other team really can't do anything.
- Alphonso Davies
#Anything
#Ball
#Important
#Really
#Team
I surround myself with good friends that help me keep my feet on the ground.
- Alphonso Davies
#Feet
#Good
#Ground
#Me
#Myself
I just want to contribute as much as possible.
- Adam Lallana
#Contribute
#Just
#Much
#Possible
#Want
When someone else is injured, they are the ones who motivate you. It's not just for yourself - it's for them.
- Adam Lallana
#Just
#Someone
#Them
#Who
#Yourself
The more you're competing, the higher the level is in training. That means the quality is going to be higher on a Saturday, Wednesday or whenever we're playing.
- Adam Lallana
#Going
#Level
#More
#Quality
#Training
I know my ability and I know what I can give.
- Adam Lallana
#Ability
#Give
#I Can
#Know
Sometimes as a No. 8 you are making decoy runs, or you are offering and you don't get the ball.
- Adam Lallana
#Ball
#Get
#Making
#Offering
#Sometimes
We want to progress and ultimately win something. You can't do that with 11, 12 or 13 players, you need a squad.
- Adam Lallana
#Need
#Players
#Progress
#Squad
#Win
Whatever my contract situation is, that will be going on in the background.
- Adam Lallana
#Contract
#Situation
#Whatever
#Will
We don't say anymore 'OK, we have a player who is unbelievably technically gifted, he will score us 20 goals but he doesn't have to work hard.' Everyone needs to put a shift in.
- Adam Lallana
#Gifted
#Goals
#Us
#Will
#Work
Speaking selfishly, having to counter-attack is not one of my strengths.
- Adam Lallana
#Having
#Speaking
#Strengths
Football is a fickle game - if I do get the jeers and the boos I'm just going to take it as them missing me playing down there because I miss Southampton. I miss the fans and I miss the good times we had down there. Of course I do.
- Adam Lallana
#Football
#Game
#Good Times
#Good
#Me
It is something you can't quite explain unless you have experienced it. There is that difference when you pull on a Liverpool shirt.
- Adam Lallana
#Difference
#Explain
#Shirt
#Something
Dad used to reminisce about the good old days when Everton won the old first division championship and the FA Cup back in the 1970s and 80s but they weren't quite so good when I started supporting them.
- Adam Lallana
#Dad
#Good Old Days
#Good
#Old
#Reminisce
Sometimes when you are a professional footballer, you have to deal with tough decisions.
- Adam Lallana
#Professional
#Tough Decisions
#Tough
Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.
- Jeremy Irons
#Better
#Look
#Praise
#Wise
#Work
Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
- Jeremy Irons
#Aptitude
#Now
#Theater
#Training
Mathematicians are always playing tricks on each other. They're always pulling jokes on each other.
- Jeremy Irons
#Always
#Jokes
#Mathematicians
#Pulling
Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.
- Cindy Sherman
#I Am
#Me
#Myself
#Trying
#Will
I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
- Sophia Bush
#Doing
#Education
#Know
#Learning
#School
Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.
- Daya
#Best
#Day
#Good
#Stupid
#Thoughts
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
- Michael Jackson
#Before
#Child
#Hurt
#Slit
#Would
Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.
- Sia
#Entertainment
#Everybody
#Industry
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
- Judith Martin
#Almost
#Days
#Glory
#Morality
#Never
People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.
- Judith Martin
#Feel
#Like
#Might
#People
#Whatever
I got a call from somebody who used to be the president of Little Persons of America. She got called from some producers who wanted someone of a certain size in the John Hughes film 'Baby's Day Out.' So that was my big break, as the stunt double of a nine-month-old.
- Verne Troyer
#America
#Big
#Day
#Film
#She
Somebody pitched me a superhero movie involving Abraham Lincoln. I was also pitched the idea of Dwarfula, which involved a mob of little people.
- Verne Troyer
#Little
#Me
#Mob
#People
#Somebody
I've had people come up and actually pick me up out of the blue. That gets a little annoying.
- Verne Troyer
#Blue
#Me
#People
#Pick
#Up
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
- Verne Troyer
#Career
#Day
#Me
#One Day At A Time
#Time
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