William Kentridge Quotes
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
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I would love to be a role model.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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I write what I write.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Playing in front of your home crowd, they can almost be like the best sixth man in the league, especially being in Boston.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.
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You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.
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I think 'GoodFellas' is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint - to me, it's just a perfect movie.
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It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
