Olafur Eliasson Quotes
I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.

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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.
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My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.
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In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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The biggest misconception is that the purpose of going to the gym is to change your body. We should be working out to be healthy.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.