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Robert Irwin Quotes

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1928

Topics

Me Doing Way Experiment Up Until

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Life Music Opportunity Art Focus

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

Success Great People Keep Able Even

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

Man Gentleman Talking Know Never

John Chatterton is the kind of person who always seems to be up to some kind of incredible adventure.

Adventure Person Kind Always Up Who

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.

Michael Ignatieff

Life Crazy Charity Political You

People traveling to malaria-prone areas can protect themselves by taking steps such as taking antimalarial drugs, using insect repellent, sleeping under insecticide-treated bed-nets, and wearing protective clothing.

People Sleeping Protect Clothing

Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

Sweet Boring Shy Darling He Really

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Michael Shermer

Experience People Incompetence Fired

You have to live life to the fullest. I don't want to slow down. I want the giving to be stepped up. So the older I get, the less I will be involved in the business side, the more in the philanthropic side.

Life Live Live Life Business Slow

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Passion Deep Investment Development

Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.

Work Time Me Saying Better Advice

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Death You Will Birth Your Before

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