Jenny Holzer Quotes
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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It's during wartime that innovations happen.
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Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.
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By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
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I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.
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When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.
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I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.
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When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
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Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
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The new government will have three major improvements. It is time to improve the economy in Taiwan.
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Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
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If you have many desires your life will be interesting.
