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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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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To a few alarmed observers it seemed as though Wall Street were by way of devouring all the money of the entire world. However, in accordance with the cultural practice, as the summer passed, the sound and responsible spokesmen decried not the increase in brokers' loans, but those who insisted on attaching significance to this trend.
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I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.
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...I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
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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.
