Nicholas Serota Quotes
The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on many occasions.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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I never wear the same shoe twice.
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When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.
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I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.
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Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.
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We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
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You're going to want to know how these things are moving in the future.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on many occasions.
