James Turrell Quotes
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
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Always follow your own path.
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I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.
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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").
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Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.
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I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
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I do love the idea of ritual.
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If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
