Donald Judd Quotes
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
Quotes to Explore
-
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
-
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
-
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
-
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
-
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
-
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
-
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
-
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
-
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
-
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
-
I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
-
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
-
I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
-
I played point guard my whole life.
-
Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
-
Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
-
I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
-
Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.
-
By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
-
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
-
You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening.
-
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
