Alfredo Jaar Quotes
Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.
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I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
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The attentive reader may have noticed that the core period of Jasper's Axial age—the lifetimes of Pythagoras, Confucius, and the Buddha—corresponds almost exactly to the period in which coinage was invented.
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Do not keep the slanderer away,
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Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.
