James Turrell Quotes

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

James Turrell

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• You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

  

  Mallory Jansen
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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
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• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

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• Little boys have amazing minds.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  

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• Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

  Irwin Redlener
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• Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.

  

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• I like that Barack got that job.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

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• Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
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• Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

  

  Liev Schreiber
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• I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

  

  Laura Benanti
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• Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
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• I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

  

  James Turrell
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