Dan Graham Quotes
A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.
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Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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Was it a vision, or a waking dream?Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
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The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
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I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.
