"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy"

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

#Museums Quotes #May Quotes #Vacancy Quotes

“The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas, as American corporations have proven very good at doing.”
“During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women [chapter] in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.”
“Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.”

Source : "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.
“I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.”
“Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.”
“I love the theater of the mind because you can go anywhere. You can say anything, and you pull people in. [You] can be jumping out of a window or riding a cow or having bubble-wrap sex or spraying your body with Pam and sliding out of your chair.”

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