Bruce Nauman Quotes
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
Yul Brynner -
I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
Nate Lowman -
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah -
Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
Oscar Isaac -
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
Sally Hawkins
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
Beck -
But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
Ted Strickland -
How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
Oliver Tambo -
The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
Laura Linney -
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg -
Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
Ma Long
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
Malik Jackson -
I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
Camila Alves -
Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
Pamela Anderson -
The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
Yuna
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
Daniel Bryan -
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
Jack Reynor -
I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young. So, I didn't think about it at the time when 'I Am Legend' came out. I just watched it.
Charlie Tahan -
Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
Maeve Binchy -
What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.
Twinkle Khanna -
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
Bruce Nauman