"BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU. YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE, WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO, AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT."

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Source : Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

Jenny Holzer

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.”

Source : "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
“One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.”
“You are literally too stupid to insult.”
“Humans are allergic to change.”
“I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.”
“Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.”
“Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.”

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