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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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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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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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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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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For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).
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Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.
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Honestly, I've been asking myself how it would feel to be Princess Leia since I was seven years old.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
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If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
