Deborah Kass Quotes
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
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This is a long-term problem and we know it will take a while to fix.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
