Matthew Barney Quotes
'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.
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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
