"I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but at first you gotta put blinders on or you'll overthink things. I think it's dangerous, by the way, to do a lot of talks about your art, to do so much talking and so little making. You get the wrong idea about yourself."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Laurel Nakadate

#Art Quotes #Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.”
“Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history”
“We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.”

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.
“I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.
“If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.”
“It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.”
“There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.”

Source : "Play that funky glockenspiel" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2007.
“I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.”

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