Alva Noto Quotes

#1. Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

Kathleen Dowling Singh

#2. True service to God is birthed in love for Him.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Lying isn't going to make you into a hero.

Rae Carson

#4. I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

Antonio Davis

#5. I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

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#6. Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

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#7. There is always room for coincidence.

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#8. The happiness was there, ordinary equipment, stowed right alongside the worry and sorrow and resolve, and it didn't solve anything, but it lightened it. "Ready?

Laini Taylor

#9. The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#10. One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

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#11. It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

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#12. Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,
like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

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#14. I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

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#15. You never know how far you can go unless you run.

Penny Chenery

#16. The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

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#17. When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

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#18. Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

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#19. I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

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#20. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.

Pope John Paul II

#21. Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

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#22. God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.

Elif Shafak

#23. There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

Andy Weir

#24. And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Patricia Hewitt

#25. How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Amy Tan

#26. The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

Francine Rivers

#27. I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

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#28. Cordone, delighted with himself for swindling the gullible Indians out of a fortune in pearls, stood at the railing of his ship smiling down at the pursuers. He was about to order his soldiers to fire upon the Indians when he was struck in the chest by an arrow. He dropped to the deck.

W.C. Jameson

#29. You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

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