Judy Chicago (Judith Sylvia Cohen) Quotes
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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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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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I worry a bit about the unknowns when it comes to travelers to the war zones in Syria and Iraq. Who don't I see? And I worry about the people who may be in their basements radicalizing that I can't see.
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Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
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I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.
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To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.
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Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
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I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.
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A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
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I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
