Hans Haacke Quotes
The artist's business requires his involvement in practically everything. He works in reference, not to a section of the world, but to the whole world.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
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At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.
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Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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The artist's business requires his involvement in practically everything. He works in reference, not to a section of the world, but to the whole world.
