Joseph Beuys Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
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I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
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I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
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Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.
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Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.
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Every man is an artist.
