Marina Abramovic Quotes

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

Marina Abramovic

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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

• As an independent skeptical of all news stations and wanting to understand diverse perspectives, I tend to navigate between CNN, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and yes, FOX.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Independent

• The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

  

  Eric Balfour
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • God
  • Enjoy

• I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Work
  • Children

• When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.

  

  Kyp Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

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

  

  Marina Abramovic