Jenny Holzer Quotes

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy.

Jenny Holzer

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• If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

  

  Halsey
  • Space
  • Difficult
  • Sound

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Science
  • Never
  • Fiction

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • See
  • Look

• Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Know
  • Wind
  • Sailing

• When they would speak earlier, they would make fun of me. But if we had got 25 out of 26 Gujarat Lok Sabha seats also, I would have got a beating. But I thank Gujarat for the 26-seat BJP clean sweep. I was told, in Gujarat, almost 60 percent of people voted for BJP, That is a new misaal paradigm in India.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Fun

• By and by an obscure individual, a young man, rose up, and, in the midst of all Christendom, proclaimed the startling news that God had sent an angel to him;... This young man, some four years afterwards, was visited again by a holy angel.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Up
  • God
  • Rose

• I've sold my soul to the devil.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Soul
  • Devil

• Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Horse

• There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • Women
  • Baby

• It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

  

  Alva Noto
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Logic

• F*ck, I can't remember. Jesus, we are getting boring! I suppose the last one I recall was at Sav's (Leppard bassist, Rick Savage). He's got a place in Dublin. It was very cool, but I left at 2am when a lot of people were just arriving. When you don't drink, you tend to leave before people start slobbering all over you.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • People
  • Drink
  • Boring

• We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.

  

  Dolly Wells
  • Proud
  • Friendship

• A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Doubt
  • Attitude

• Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy.

  

  Jenny Holzer
  • Fear
  • Hands
  • Weapon