Donald Judd Quotes
Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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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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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
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A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'
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It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
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I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.
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Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.
