Kathy Acker Quotes

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• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Look

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Smile
  • Face
  • Cause

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Hope
  • Sometimes
  • Clothes

• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

  

  Patrick Gordon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• To align with our new strategy to enhance the Windows device ecosystem, we are integrating Microsoft Mobile Device Sales (MMDS) underneath the Consumer Channels Group (CCG).

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • New
  • Sales
  • Strategy

• There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Day
  • Universe

• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Always

• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Star

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

  

  Peter Bart
  • Picture
  • Financial
  • Commitment

• I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

  

  Lech Walesa

• When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Bad
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Mother
  • Nature

• You can do whatever you want with my work.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Work