Marina Abramovic Quotes
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
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Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
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At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.
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I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.
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I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
