Christian Marclay Quotes
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I often reread books I have written.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
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Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.
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I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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When rain has hung the leaves with tears I want you near to kill my fears, To help me to leave all my blues behind. For standin' in your heart Is where I want to be And long to be, Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
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Karaoke bars are devil worship!
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
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Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I've faced worse things in my life than prison
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No artist tolerates reality.
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You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
