James Turrell Quotes
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.James Turrell
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
Carl Lewis -
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams -
I am not an American; I am the American.
Val Kilmer -
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman -
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
Idina Menzel -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss -
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
Mamata Banerjee
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
Patrick Collison -
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow -
Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
J. K. Simmons -
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
Ban Ki-moon
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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Charley Pride -
I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
Nancy Grace -
There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!
Donald Trump -
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Charles Kingsley -
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
James Turrell