Yasumasa Morimura Quotes

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

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• For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'

  

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
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• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

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• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

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• People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

  

  Harold Prince
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• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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  • Incidents

• I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Myself
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• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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  • Brother

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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  • Band

• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
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• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• I have a job to do, and I'm going to do my best.

  

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• I hate the PC, with a passion.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.

  

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• Nigel: Why the cheap jokes? Jack: Cheap? When I was a kid, we were made to stay away from school on Empire Days so we wouldn't have to wave one of those little Union Jacks. We were the richest country in the world then, or so I'm told, and my old man bow-legged from malnutrition. Us kids nearly died laughing.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • World
  • Country
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• If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
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• The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • World
  • Art
  • Value