Paloma Picasso Quotes

Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.

Paloma Picasso

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 19, 1949

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My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.

Jim Yong Kim

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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Jiang Wen

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Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.

John Gregory Dunne

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Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

John Walters

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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Tom Hanks

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The whole point is it's about getting as many people to come and see the play as you can.

Roger Rees

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

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I never once had a regular paycheck. Not for more than six weeks in a row and for the most part not even that. I still haven't. The notion of some whistling kid with a mail cart coming down the hall and handing me my weekly paycheck is something I've only seen in Matthew Broderick movies.

Mike Binder

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Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

Lorrie Fair

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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Jordan Peterson

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The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.

Dick Cheney

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David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

Douglas Booth

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