Larry Gagosian Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.
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When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.
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In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
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Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
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My favorite group growing up was 'The Hobbit.' It was the first book I actually finished. One of those adventure things that takes you to that land and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am not a huge book reader.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
