Piet Mondrian Quotes
That is what we are against the ancient-Greek ideas about art, because that is the key to the classic and tragic finality from which we must free ourselves.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I'm evangelical.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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There's a gude time coming.
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He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
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That is what we are against the ancient-Greek ideas about art, because that is the key to the classic and tragic finality from which we must free ourselves.
