Christian Marclay Quotes
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
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Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
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Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
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I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'
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I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
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We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
