Gary Hallinan (Gary Holland) Quotes
Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
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I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
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Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
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Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
