Duane Michals Quotes
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
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I like reality. It tastes like bread.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.
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My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
