Barry Blitt Quotes

The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

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• When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Song
  • Party

• Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Perspective
  • Being
  • Behind

• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Be True

• Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Political
  • Finance
  • Bank

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Successful

• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Leaving

• As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Words
  • Moments
  • Movies

• Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Cute

• In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Things
  • Language

• The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Difficult
  • View
  • Lightning

• I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • She
  • Girl
  • Red

• As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Support
  • Taken
  • Last

• The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Money
  • Happiness
  • Data

• The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Artist

• Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Purpose
  • Moon
  • Act

• The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

  

  Jack Levine
  • High
  • Man
  • Saying

• Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Beginning

• Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Help
  • Information
  • Songs

• I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Support
  • Party
  • Responsibility

• Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

  

  Zhou Shengxian
  • Environment
  • Economic
  • Protect

• The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Election
  • Built
  • Dread