Nam June Paik Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
-
I'm cranky.
-
Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
-
I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
-
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
-
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
-
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
-
Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
-
I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
-
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
-
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
-
I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
-
If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
-
I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
-
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
-
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
-
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
-
When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.
-
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
-
I make technology ridiculous.
