When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and became a Picasso.
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Pablo Picasso Quotes (Author of The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and Other Poems)
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