James Turrell Quotes
There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.
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People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sort of a miracle, but it happened.
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There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.
