Amy Sillman Quotes
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
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Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.
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On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.
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That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.
