Marina Abramovic Quotes
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.
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One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.