Marina Abramovic Quotes
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
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I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
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If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.
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Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
