Marcel Duchamp Quotes

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 28, 1887 - October 2, 1968

Topics

FearHumorPetLaughterWorldTools

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

Andre Holland

MotherWomanMeSmallFindKind

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

ManOpinionActionTrialsCritic

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

LifeCinemaKnowNothingThrough

I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.

Amanda Seales

CreateWantDigitalWriteStage

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

PlayImportantEquityDifferentHow

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

Tom Cochrane

GoodThinkYouCelebrityFirstStar

The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?

Mike Johanns

YearRulesWillWhateverOutBig

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

Michelle Malkin

ListeningControlWake UpEnoughYou

The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.

Jay Parini

GoodLiveFeel GoodIndependenceUp

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

Joshua Lederberg

LivePurposeBelieveThinkKnowWho

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

Josh Fox

LoveFaithGreatPeopleGreedLost

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

Dee Rees

ArtPeopleYouUniqueWaySee

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