James Turrell Quotes
It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
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First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.
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I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
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I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.
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People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
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It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.
