Antony Gormley Quotes
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
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Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
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I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.
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Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
