Gerald Stern Quotes
I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
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I think a lot of what the iPad app is going to be used for is just reading the best content on Quora. It really helps the whole system run because people who are writing answers can get this very wide distribution to a large audience of readers.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
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When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.
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We will create far more stable and secure jobs. We all have to change and we all have to sacrifice.
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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
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Only artists without talent try to shock people.
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Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
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I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.
