Max Bill Quotes
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
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Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
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My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.
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The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
