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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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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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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John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
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The Marine Aquarium Council really wants us to keep the coral and the fish safe. They are not saying it is bad to have an aquarium in your house, just that you should make sure when you buy fish for your aquarium... they have been Marine Aquarium Council-certified.
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When you’re young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.
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The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.
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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.
