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- Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
- I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to…
- As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a…
- Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get…
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
- I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
- Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted…
- I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach