James Turrell Quotes

Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Push

• The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Her

• You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Home
  • Job
  • Experience

• I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Movie
  • I Love
  • Premiere

• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Doing
  • Everything
  • Knowing

• There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Good
  • Me
  • Advice

• 'It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature sons and daughters who will in My name exercise dominion over the earth and subdue Satan, the unruly, the rebellious. Take back My world from those who would loot it and abuse it. Rule as I would rule.'' - The Secret Kingdom

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Law

• I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Home
  • Character

• Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Funeral

• At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

  

  Mary Bono
  • People

• I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Blow

• Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan

• Programs that encourage mentorship, workshops that teach women how to self advocate, and even employee resource groups that are focused on women in the workplace are all very powerful outlets that foster safe-space conversations.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Women
  • Space
  • Powerful

• Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Earth
  • Peace

• The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Fall
  • Dance
  • Professional

• America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.

  

  Ernie Chambers
  • America
  • Succeed
  • Public

• Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Human
  • Point
  • Group

• Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

  

  James Turrell