Dan Devine Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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God is everywhere.
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There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch.
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I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if you get like a good rhythm you can nod your head. You just feel good. But then when you listen to the lyrics it was quite sad.
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You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
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These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.
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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
