Michael Heizer Quotes

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Michael Heizer

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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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Enemy
  • Your
  • Deceive

• 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.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Cry

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Objects
  • Acts
  • Sensory

• To love beauty is to see light.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Light
  • Beauty

• 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.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Home
  • Want
  • Relax

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Live
  • Water

• 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.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Control
  • Internet
  • Been

• 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..

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Work
  • Value

• Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Red
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Attitude

• The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

  

  George Sewell
  • Imagination
  • Place
  • Wonderful

• I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!

  

  Christien Meindertsma
  • Up
  • Single
  • Tea

• Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Really
  • Decisions
  • Tough

• When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Up
  • Dad
  • College

• I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

  

  David Sylvian
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Reading

• A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

  

  Michael Heizer
  • Strong
  • Understand
  • Angry