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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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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And that impulse to make the world better, to push back on those who try to make it worse, that’s something that your generation has to hold on to. And you have to remember, it’s never easy; there are no days off. But if there’s one thing that I know from my own life, it’s that with hard work and with hope, change is always within our reach.
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There is never going to be an end point. But definitely, I am happy to complete a certain part of my journey, and that's something I want to celebrate.
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If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
