Alfredo Jaar Quotes
My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'
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Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.
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I have a very muscular face.
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It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.
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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
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Online education and technology are doubtless going to change how we learn in the years ahead. Remote learning is inexpensive and brings down the cost of near-universal access.
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Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.
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People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
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Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.
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My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.
