Mark Bradford Quotes
I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.
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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
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Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.
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My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
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Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.
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I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.
