Doug Aitken Quotes
The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
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I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.