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Art is the proper task of life.


Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: Life Art Proper
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
Zinedine Zidane
Tags: Very Will Which
I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.
Emmy Rossum
My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.
Romany Malco
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
Arne Jacobsen
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
Jay Kay
Tags: Government Car Me
I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Tags: Work Me Up
The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.
Ginger Rogers
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Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.


Gyorgy Ligeti
Tags: Me Very Something
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Garry Trudeau
Tags: You People Me
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.


Val Kilmer
Tags: Just Should Art
My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.
Avi Rubin
Tags: Change Think Very
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
Gerard Way
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: God Power Life
I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.
Terry Pratchett
Tags: Up Which Some
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes
Tags: Good Man Take
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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.


Harvey Fierstein
Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.
Michelle Williams
Tags: Me More Life
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American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.


Raoul Dufy