Agnes Denes Quotes
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
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I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.
