Francis Alys Quotes
I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The world is always in movement.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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A good fight scene is really a good love scene.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was of a school element.
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You can go ahead and break a law, and you can come to a sanctuary city, and they wouldn't enforce the laws.
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I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
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I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.
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I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
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I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.
