Annette Messager Quotes
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid.Annette Messager
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin -
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain -
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
Jack Kingston -
I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
Eddie Trunk
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
Nancy Lublin -
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor -
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
Warren Farrell -
I don't do meetings.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens -
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
Maisie Williams -
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Sam Waterston -
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. Lawrence -
There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
Wallace Stevens -
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
Elbert Hubbard -
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.
Chelsea Manning
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A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired.
Bonnie McKee -
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
Fernando Pessoa -
We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.
Peter Maurer -
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid.
Annette Messager