Olafur Eliasson Quotes
For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.Olafur Eliasson
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
Rachel Zoe -
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten -
My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
Laura Carmichael -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
Yuliya Snigir -
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
Randy Pausch -
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson -
This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
Vicky Hartzler -
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
Immanuel Velikovsky -
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana Santana -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
Gabriel Basso -
I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
Gagan Narang -
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
Daniel Bruhl -
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln -
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Natasha Trethewey -
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
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Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.
James Edward Olliges Jr. -
Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.
Bohumil Hrabal -
Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.
Lesley Manville -
The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
Angela Ahrendts -
For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.
Olafur Eliasson