Christian Marclay Quotes
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
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I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
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(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
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We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
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You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.
