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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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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On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'
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If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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We are the result of the stimulus we receive.
