Marina Abramovic Quotes

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

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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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

  

  Fleur East
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Happening

• The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Peace
  • Point
  • Election

• Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fly
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • You
  • Day
  • Year

• I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Diversity
  • Nation
  • Fabric

• I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • War
  • Beginning
  • Year

• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Important
  • My Life

• One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Live
  • Way
  • Peace

• I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Capacity

• I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Party
  • Rome

• I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

  

  Karen Allen
  • World
  • Feel
  • See

• Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Progress

• Commercial rock ’n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Music
  • Church
  • Rock

• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Imagination

• You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Mind

• The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

  

  Charles Alexander Eastman
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Character

• I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• The U.S., together with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or retaliation every time it tried to move toward official recognition, or at least acceptance, of its claim that the Baltic states were Soviet republics.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • Time
  • Together
  • Acceptance

• Now, given the increasing importance of artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, we are evolving Accenture Digital to be even more relevant to our clients and drive even greater differentiation in the marketplace.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Learning

• The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

  

  Marina Abramovic