I was very much into buying contemporary... by Sylvester Stallone

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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

- Sylvester Stallone

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Being Love

I love being verbal in films.

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Now Life Will

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

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Careers Mountains

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

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Success

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

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If this is something you wanna do, and if this is something you gotta do, then you do it. Fighters fight.

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Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

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