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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
-
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.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
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.
-
Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
-
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
-
Competition is good and has served us well.
-
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
-
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
-
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.
-
I have a very small public.
-
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
-
The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.
-
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
