Nam June Paik Quotes
Paik (1969) Versatile Color TV Synthesizer, Manifesto, cited in: Edith Decker-Phillips. Paik Video, Barrytown, Limited, 1998. p. 154
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.
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I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?
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I don't feel naked around you anymore.
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Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.
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Paik (1969) Versatile Color TV Synthesizer, Manifesto, cited in: Edith Decker-Phillips. Paik Video, Barrytown, Limited, 1998. p. 154
