Nam June Paik Quotes
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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I don't care about that scum! Why should I receive a prize? I know that I'm a genius!
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
