Christian Marclay Quotes

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

Christian Marclay

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

  

  Ralph Boston
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  • Think
  • Competition

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Mind
  • Free

• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Society

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
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  • Study

• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
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  • Country
  • Man

• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
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  • Hell

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Heart
  • Community

• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
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• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Love
  • Guy

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
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  • Thinking
  • Color

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
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  • Competition
  • Well

• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
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  • Work

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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  • Heart
  • Question

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

  

  Joe Jamail
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  • Light
  • Die

• We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Truth
  • Opinions
  • Helped

• Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Worry

• If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• I essentially grew up listening to Radio 1, the chart show in particular. It was a routine, as for many young people. Every Sunday, I waited patiently to be told who was on top.

  

  Jameela Jamil
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  • Listening

• If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

  

  Christian Marclay
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