Rirkrit Tiravanija Quotes
I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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I went through a really dorky phase.
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I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
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You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
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There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.
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Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.
