Bill Viola Quotes
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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What I do is I do my job.
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I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.
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Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
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I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.
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I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.
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My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.
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Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
