Fernando Botero Quotes

My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

Fernando Botero

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When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

Jennifer Hudson

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You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

Andrew J. West

CharacterYouIllusionPersonBecome

As a company, the best that we can do is not only penalize but rehabilitate. Speaking for myself, I've always been strong. I don't need that club to put in my bag. This is a choice of the athlete, not the sanctioning body. We do substance abuse testing, impact testing, cardiac testing, so we try to sniff out these problems before they even start.

John Cena

MyselfBestStartStrongImpactBag

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

Andrew Cuomo

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Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

John Naisbitt

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

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When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Shirley MacLaine

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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Mason Cooley

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I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Diane Keaton

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American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.

Peter Bergen

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Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Peter Jackson

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Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.

Shane West

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