Marina Abramovic Quotes
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers' money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people in the song, too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
