Judy Chicago (Judith Sylvia Cohen) Quotes
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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I am married.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.
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I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
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University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
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I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.
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I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
