Barry McGee Quotes
I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
