Gavin Turk Quotes
The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
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His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity - This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleatsThe herd back to the pit of being.
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But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.
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You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
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Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?
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Every girl is capable of murder if you hurt her.
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.
