Peter Doig Quotes

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

Peter Doig

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I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

Jennifer Connelly

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I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.

Ann Richards

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Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.

Michael Gerber

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When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

John Wayne

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My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

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I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

Steve Antin

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It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.

Soleil Moon Frye

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I firmly believe that the U.S. has to honor its debt.

Steve Mnuchin

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Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

Russell Pearce

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I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

Mary J. Blige

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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Donald Knuth

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An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.

Chris Gabrieli

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