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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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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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 have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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I could not find the way to God;There were too many flaming sunsFor signposts, and the fearful roadLed over wastes where millionsOf tangled comets hissed and burned-I was bewildered and I turned.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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Westerners do not understand that when it comes to the Muslim world, even the most “moderate” of Muslims, if they are religious, all believe in the coming of the Mahdi and the establishment of the Caliphate to rule the entire Globe by changing world laws to adapt the Islamic Sharia. The coming of the Mahdi to religious Muslims is as holy of a belief as the coming of Messiah is to Christians and Jews.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.
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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.
