Alfredo Jaar Quotes
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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Form follows beauty.
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
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Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.
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If this recommendation is accepted then a repeat of the unfortunate statements that came out of the 2004 internal elections, which brought the party into even higher levels of disrepute would be avoided.
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I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
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Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
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Those who act receive the prizes.
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I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!
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We are the result of the stimulus we receive.
