Mark Bradford Quotes
I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
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The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.
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I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
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I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.
