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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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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It's hard to generalize about that subject because the women I've worked with have all been so different. But if there's one consistency, it might be that you do have to handle yourself differently on a set. Women can be more emotional - at least they sometimes show it more.
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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.
