Edith Widder Quotes
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.
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I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
