Du Yun Quotes
I'm always going to use music, use culture as a tool to engage people to have this dialog, to enable others. That's very important.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
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I think a movie is a great date idea for younger couples. It takes the pressure off, since something else is entertaining you. It's also good for couples in a very comfortable relationship.
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Have I ever abused a woman? Never.
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Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
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I'm always going to use music, use culture as a tool to engage people to have this dialog, to enable others. That's very important.
