James Turrell Quotes
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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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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I'm such a perfectionist.
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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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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.
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'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.
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Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
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As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.
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It is very likely that there are many, many planets carrying life, even intelligent life, thoughout the universe, because there are so many stars. By sheer chance, even if those chances are small, a great many life forms and a great many intelligences may exist.
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When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.
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I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
