"I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up."

-- Robert Bateman

#Giving Up Quotes #Ambition Quotes #People Quotes

“There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.”
“We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.”
“My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chefs table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.”

Source : "Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Dishes on the Competition". Washington Post Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2009.
“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.”

Source : "Astrology and Religion".
“Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.”
“I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.”
“I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.”

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