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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
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I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.
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Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
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Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
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