Urs Fischer Quotes
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?
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There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
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Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
