Lucian Freud Quotes

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 8, 1922 - July 20, 2011

Topics

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There is a terrorist threat to this country that remains, and I believe that counter-terrorism needs to be the cornerstone of our mission, our vast mission... and aviation security is something that we still have a fair amount of concerns about.

Jeh Johnson

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I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.

Andy Grammer

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For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.

Trent Reznor

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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

Rowan Atkinson

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What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Jules Verne

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I drink at least a couple of espressos every day and love the flavor of coffee.

Johnny Iuzzini

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I am the foremost expert on what Cory Stewart believes.

Corey Stewart

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Jellies are to cold cookery what consommes and stock are to hot. If anything, the former are perhaps more important: for a cold entree - however perfect it may be in itself - is nothing without its accompanying jelly.

Auguste Escoffier

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We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

Pete Best

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I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.

Sebastian Lelio

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A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

Tim O'Reilly

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One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

Tim Scott

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