Robert Wilson Quotes

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

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• I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Space
  • Learn

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I am a contrarian.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Contrarian

• Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Order
  • Big
  • Out

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • War
  • Peace
  • Last

• Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu

• Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

  

  Larry Wall

• It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was fucking wrong, wasn't I? You see, because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Travel

• I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Work

• Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Opportunity
  • Community
  • Identity

• In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Community
  • Weird

• ... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Community
  • Christ
  • Biblical

• Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Mean
  • Suffering
  • Liberty

• I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Museums