Walead Beshty Quotes

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Comedy
  • Pain
  • Film

• People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Work
  • Perfect

• Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Most
  • Concepts
  • Bitcoin

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Things
  • While

• It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Different
  • Character
  • First

• All of my high school issues are resolved!

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Fear
  • Hate

• Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn’t he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?” Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes.“We,” he said, “have knives.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Lies

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance, whether it's bringing Violet to work or, the second I am done working, getting home to her.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Results
  • Duty

• I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Photography