Edward Sorel Quotes
We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were all kinds of things. But we're stuck with ourselves. I have good friends. And that in itself convinces me that I deserve to live.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
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At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
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Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.
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Wish I had concentrated; they said love was complicated. But it was something I just fell into. And it was overrated, but just look what I created!
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I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.
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I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
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I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
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I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.
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I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.
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I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
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Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.
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I get paid to make out with the hunks!
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We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were all kinds of things. But we're stuck with ourselves. I have good friends. And that in itself convinces me that I deserve to live.
