Bill Viola Quotes

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1951

Topics

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People are born with the ability to make judgments. And they can't help but use the information they have to divine something about the world they're in. Making categorical judgments, in large, helps our society.

Robert Lopez

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No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

Matthew Desmond

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I walk to work, so boots are a staple for me.

Stacey Bendet

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The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Jayne Ann Krentz

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I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Dominic Monaghan

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I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.

Derek Jeter

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I don't think capitalism can survive.

Douglas Tompkins

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I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Donnie Wahlberg

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The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.

Dorothea Dix

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As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

Christopher Buckley

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In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

Colin Powell

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If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

Brad Bird

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