James Turrell Quotes

I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

James Turrell

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I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

Joaquin Andujar

BadKnowWhyWriteAlwaysThings

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Matthew Simpson

GodFriendsKnowSafeSeeAgain

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

Tom Chatfield

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You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

Jason Segel

LoveThinkYouBackKnowSitting

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Chuck Hagel

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Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

Bruce Johnston

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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I prefer black music in general.

Phil Collins

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Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

Peter Senge

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For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

Shawn Wayans

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I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Richard Dawkins

SaidEntertainmentHumanIlluminate

People see a 'South Park' episode, and there's racially insensitive jokes - nobody bats an eye because they're expecting that in that context. In hip-hop, they don't expect that kind of thing because it's a white person in a predominantly black world.

Lil Dicky

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