- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
- Eloquently
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020