James Turrell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
-
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm such a perfectionist.
-
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.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
-
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
-
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
-
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
-
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
-
Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
-
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.
-
'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.
-
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
-
Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
-
One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
-
I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles I want to write. One is a romantic comedy; one's about my dad's life. I've also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. There's also a really cool concept for a spy novel.
-
Our plan is that sometime early next year, we will then start to put this on the Cisco overall price list.
-
I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
-
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
-
I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.
-
I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
