Agnes Martin Quotes
Although we are all different, we all respond to each other's suggestions of perfection. And we enjoy the same response as the artist. It is the inner contemplation, the wanting to respond to life, that opens our eyes to what is already in the mind.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules.
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When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly powerful but is always going to create waves.
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It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.
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Although we are all different, we all respond to each other's suggestions of perfection. And we enjoy the same response as the artist. It is the inner contemplation, the wanting to respond to life, that opens our eyes to what is already in the mind.
