James Turrell Quotes

The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.

James Turrell

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SkyOceanFeelYouDownAir

I've just had this idea pop in my head of trying to learn a new song every da, and try and play it that night. That's been fun for me because it's a little bit of a scary adventure, playing a song for the first time in front of people and letting it just be what it is.

Jim James

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Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

Joe Morton

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When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

Joe Torre

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I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

John Cusack

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U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.

Max Baucus

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I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.

John Piper

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We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

MoneyProblemYearYouKnowNow

Before I even agreed to work with Hennessy and the Privilege Awards, I wanted to do some research on it, look up past winners, and find out more about it.

Troy Carter

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Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

Rush Limbaugh

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My mom has this thing where she doesn't sugarcoat stuff.

Alicia Garza

MomSheWhereStuffThing

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.

William Henry Bragg

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I like Miami in the winter: there's no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you're all good!

Prince Royce

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