Martin Kippenberger Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
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Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.
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Entertainment and art are not isolated.
