Marina Abramovic Quotes
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
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I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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Vivere me dices, sed sic ut vivere nolim
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A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows that these things will make it difficult for it to fulfil the will of God which she recognizes.
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It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
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The only way I'll really smile is if you cut me ear to ear.
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A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.
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You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'
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Artists can do whatever they want!
