Jerry Saltz Quotes
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
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I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
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For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.
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Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.