Deborah Kass Quotes

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

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• I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Olympic

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Song
  • Mom

• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • World
  • Religious

• The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Game
  • You
  • End

• In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Old
  • Buildings

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Like
  • Logical

• It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Reality
  • Rules
  • Old

• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Know
  • Harmony

• I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Song

• We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Opportunity
  • Wonder
  • Stars

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Lucky
  • Pressure

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Hand
  • Painting
  • Hands

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around and said: 'No man is self-made;' and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary.

  

  Christian McKay
  • People
  • Help
  • Hand

• You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Life
  • Control

• Even though I know the rain is fake, it feels the same as real rain, and I desperately need that.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Need
  • Rain
  • Fake

• Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

  

  Deborah Kass