Christian Marclay Quotes
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I love holidaying with the kids after working hard, it is amazing.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?
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President-elect Trump wants to win them if you're going to be involved in a war. I don't think he wants to be involved in war, but when we are, he wants to win.
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But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
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The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
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There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.
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I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
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I used to be a daredevil on BMX bikes.
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I have never been much of a painter.
