Alfredo Jaar Quotes
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too loaded. When I first read the term, it meant natural, unprocessed. Now it doesn't mean that at all. It means diet. It means fad.
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It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
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My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
