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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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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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
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When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.
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I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.
Colson Whitehead -
I don't even like being quoted in a press release.
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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.
