Cai Guo-Qiang Quotes
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
