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> [You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/you-pick-people-and-they-pick-you-sometimes-it-s-especially-great-to/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

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## More by Aleksandra Mir

> [Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/of-course-i-can-have-a-simple-reaction-of-sympathy-and-sorrow-to/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/i-m-so-extremely-well-prepared-for-negative-response-i-ve-taken/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/there-are-ends-occasionally-with-projects-that-happens-but-they-are/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/of-course-i-d-welcome-protest-good-criticism-is-hard-to-find/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> ["Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions for years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/naming-tokyo-kicked-off-at-the-palais-de-tokyo-in-paris-in-june-and/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/i-follow-these-intimate-connections-of-strangers-and-surprise-end-up/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/seeing-your-work-go-into-storage-in-an-art-museum-is-obviously-a/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/you-pick-people-and-they-pick-you-sometimes-it-s-especially-great-to/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/in-1989-i-came-to-new-york-to-go-to-the-school-of-visual-arts-then/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/i-find-myself-doing-fieldwork-physically-in-the-tradition-of/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/i-think-the-wildest-wildlife-you-can-find-these-days-is-in-chernobyl/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/people-get-upset-when-baghdad-the-cradle-of-civilization-is-burning/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/i-m-very-jealous-of-an-era-where-people-were-inventing-something-so/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/i-was-a-lousy-academic-i-spent-most-of-my-time-in-the-cafeteria-but-i/)

[Aleksandra Mir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandra-mir/)

> [Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandra-mir/dutch-beaches-were-known-to-me-as-man-made-territories-as-part-of/)

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