Doug Aitken Quotes
My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.
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It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams. -Arthur Mentis
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The 'Art of Charm' podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it's the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply because Jordan has worked out how to weaponise all the many elements of the human personality that go to make up charisma in order to get people to listen to him, be impressed by him, or hire him.
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As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.
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Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
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My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
