Judy Chicago (Judith Sylvia Cohen) Quotes
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.
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For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
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What's it to you if I love you?
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Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
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The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
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Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
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Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
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To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.
