Trevor Paglen Quotes

The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling the Earth until the sun turns into a red giant about 5 billion years from now.

Trevor Paglen

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RedSunEarthCivilizationBecome

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

John Lurie

DogBirdMindEyeThoughtWay

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Maura Tierney

MomentFocusDoingUpTakesSpan

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

KnowledgeChildrenManEvilModesty

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.

Amy Irving

WorkMyselfNew BeginningBeginning

For me, history is always personal. And it's how your personal history interacts with the history of your time. I'm very attracted to characters who were cursed, as the Chinese say, to live in interesting times.

Tom Reiss

LiveHistoryTimeMeInteresting

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.

Michio Kaku

LifeTechnologyTimeTravelWait

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Joyce Meyer

LifeLiveRelationshipJobYouReal

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

Doc Watson

MusicGuitarLovedSoundOldReal

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

RelationshipThinkingThoughtParent

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Brandon Sanderson

I AmFindImportantBuildWriteWho

I don't see any situation where Israel will not be sitting on the Golan Heights.

Ariel Sharon

SituationHeightsSittingWillSee

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

Rex Tillerson

CompromiseEthicalConductOption

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