Christian Marclay Quotes
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.
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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
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People take sex far too seriously.
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I'd like to help other comedians and when I get a little older I'd like to open up a nice comedy club that is straight classy, with a straight restaurant and a chef. The whole thing, red carpet, and treating people nice, for people to come back and have a good time. That's the kind of comedy club I want to open up.
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Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it deems sufficient. Indeed, it is the solemn duty of all of the members of the House in any impeachment case to exercise their judgment faithfully within the confines established by our Constitution.
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If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved?
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Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.
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As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
