Marcel Dzama Quotes
Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
Quotes to Explore
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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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 started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.
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Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
