Albert Oehlen Quotes
I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.
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Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.
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I wanted more control. Painting was the only way to do it yourself. Movies require too many people. You can have an auteur vision but there’s a lot of money involved. And there’s a lot of people telling you what to do.
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I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.
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I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.
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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.
