Michael Heizer Quotes
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.
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WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'
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[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
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I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.
