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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I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
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I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.
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A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
