Andreas Gursky Quotes
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
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I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
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Initially what defined me as a 'man repeller' was my conscious effort to wear clothing that was attractive in my opinion but not necessarily in a man's opinion.
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Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
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Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,And the little gray mouse, she called him Blink,And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard.
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My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
