Bill Viola Quotes
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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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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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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What you see is what you get.
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Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.
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I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
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People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
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I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.
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The climbs up the Hand of Fatima, which is 2,000 feet, and Naga Parbat, which is just over 15,000 feet, were spectacular. The Hand of Fatima and the Kaga Tondo, in Mali, is a personal favourite of mine.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
