Abe Ajay Quotes

The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

Abe Ajay

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• The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Ocean

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Long
  • Family

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• Perché il bisogno a dispogliar gli altarira' l'uom talvolta, che sel trova avere.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Society
  • Reflection

• That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Mistake

• Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Fun

• I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Silly

• There are some societies where women are not even allowed to drive a car, and that restriction is based in the name of religion and tradition. There are other countries where a woman can be punished if she does not cover her head.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Women
  • She
  • Car

• It's the same game, I don't care where you are playing, Minnesota, Kansas City or New York, it's the same game.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Game
  • City

• The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Remember
  • Period

• What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Audience
  • Dave
  • Matthew

• I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Job
  • Person
  • Difference

• Sometimes the best solution is simplification.

  

  Bobby Bragan
  • Solution
  • Simplification

• Eun Gi is lying. It means she doesn't believe me. It means she is angry at me. It means she can't forgive me.

  

  Song Joong-ki
  • Believe
  • She
  • Angry

• After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, "Thats fine. We support you, but you have to go to school", which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway, I enjoy it.

  

  Josie Loren
  • School
  • Dream
  • Moving

• Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

  

  Sinclair Lewis
  • Love
  • Clouds
  • Lighten

• New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Art World

• Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

  

  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  • First Time
  • Tiresome
  • New Look

• The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Art World
  • New Look