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 well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
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In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.
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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.
