Hans Haacke Quotes
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Midi is my hobby.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
