Natalie Jeremijenko Quotes
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
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Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.
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If I had to pick a religion, I'd pick Buddhism. Buddhism is a kindly religion. It says you got a chance... it's got humor, it's got wisdom, it says to be nice to each other. All the rest of them have gods that want to beat the crap out of you if you defy the rules.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
