Doug Aitken Quotes
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
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If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.
