Danny Strong Quotes
I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
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My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
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For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.
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I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.
