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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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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The timeless moment. - The 'moment' has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
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Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.
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It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
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And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.
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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.
