Ari Marcopoulos Quotes
I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . .
Quotes to Explore
-
I really like performing for people.
-
How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
-
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
-
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
-
I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
-
In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
-
Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
-
Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
-
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
-
In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
-
I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
-
I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.
-
I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
-
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
-
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
-
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
-
We can set it as a goal that taxes on labor would be even lower in Hungary... that we will have the cheapest energy in Europe, and that all those who want to work would have a job.
-
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
-
I think it's so important that you want to be in the room with these people making music together, because that's what it's all about. Especially hip-hop music, because you have to be vibing.
-
I climb up, go down again, then climb up once more; between all my studies, as a relaxation I explore every footpath, always curious to see something new.
-
No path is wholly rough.
-
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
-
There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.
-
I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . .
