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.Matthew Barney
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers -
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.
Becky G -
Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
Zendaya -
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.
Hari Kunzru -
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Yul Brynner -
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.
Katee Sackhoff -
Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
Rachel Maddow -
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.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
Irving Ravetch -
I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
Dana Brunetti -
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.
Edi Rama -
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.
Fergus Henderson -
I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
Iqbal Quadir -
'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.
Natasha Trethewey
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider -
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali -
Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
Orson Scott Card -
Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
Leymah Gbowee -
Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
Kevin Rudd -
'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.
Matthew Barney