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.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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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.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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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.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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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.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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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.
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I don't do meetings.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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I like to have sleepovers.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
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Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid.
