Camille Henrot Quotes
I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
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Working out is so mentally and physically important.
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Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.
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If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.
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I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.
