Doug Aitken Quotes

The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.

Doug Aitken

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

LifeDeathPeopleProcessWishKind

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

Tom Petty

RealistOptimistLikeToo

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

Tom Coburn

PromisesSecuritySocial Security

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.

Johnny Weir

LovePeopleAmazingFlyingIceYou

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Brendan Myers

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My goal has always been to be a working actor.

Bryan Cranston

GoalActorAlwaysWorkingBeen

I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired.

Alison Goldfrapp

LiveGreatMeFeelPeacefulBath

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Sylvia Plath

LoveGodBelieveSelfYouWant

I really appreciate that ability to gather signals of demand and signals of retention early on.

Sunil Nagaraj

AppreciateEarlyAbilityDemand

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors.

Tina Brown

DailyCreativityRestFastNewsBox

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

Ridley Scott

ReligionBelieveCareYouFaithful

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