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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In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors. It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.
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How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!
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Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.
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I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
