Gavin Turk Quotes
Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.Gavin Turk
Quotes to Explore
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
Olivier Theyskens -
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Madeleine L'Engle -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben -
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
A. J. Liebling -
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison -
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
A. R. Rahman -
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Vernon Howard -
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
Warren Farrell -
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
J. B. Pritzker
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Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
Andy Warhol -
The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time.
Akio Morita -
I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work.
Laurie Metcalf -
I try to be respectful and talk to any fan and sign anything that anyone wants. Without the fans, you're not much. You need fans to do this job. I've got a nice little following, and it seems to be growing as each thing comes out.
Aneurin Barnard -
The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
Phoebe Snow -
My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
Marvin Sapp
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This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.
Holly Hunter -
I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.
Priyanka Chopra -
I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
Lauren Graham -
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Bainbridge Colby -
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
Ram Dass -
Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.
Gavin Turk