Nam June Paik Quotes
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Africa has no future.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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Predictions are preposterous.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.
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The future is now.
