Jean Tinguely Quotes
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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The general market wants what I do.
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I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'
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Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.
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Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.
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Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
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The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
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I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
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THE ONLY STABLE THING IS MOVEMENT
