Marina Abramovic Quotes
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.
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No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them.
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There is no time like the pleasant.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’
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For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
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Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
