Fernando Botero Quotes

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

Fernando Botero

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I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

Jermain Defoe

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I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.

Jennifer Coolidge

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It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

Andrew Greeley

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I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.

Ann Packer

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Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

Michael Franti

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Boxing's a business, and I've got a great team around me who have been looking after me in that sense.

Amir Khan

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Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

Molly Sims

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Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

Bode Miller

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I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Rick Danko

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