Marina Abramovic Quotes
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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A lot of times, people ask us about being a country band, and we say, 'Well, we're not really a country band.' And we're not knocking country, because we like it, but we don't want to be limited.
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Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
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To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.
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See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.
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Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.
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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
