Michael Heizer Quotes
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
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I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
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I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
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Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. We simply cannot check inflation by keeping people out of work..
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Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.
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I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
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With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
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I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
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There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.
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A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
