Carolee Schneemann Quotes

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Down

• I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Thought
  • Racism

• Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Look
  • Values

• Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have learned and gained from all of those experiences. And as I've often said, the public hasn't seen the best of me yet. I need someone like Mayweather to bring that out of me.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Fight
  • Learned

• Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • True
  • Opinion

• Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

  

  Alice Munro
  • She
  • Grief

• When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Faith
  • Abuse

• I love Armani Face Fabric, Make Up For Ever HD, Rodial Skin Tint and Charlotte Tilbury.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Up

• The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.

  

  Bille August
  • Beginning

• Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dog

• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Victory
  • Will

• It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• My dad was very excited about me doing 'Laguna Beach,' and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn't even allowed to watch MTV!

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Character
  • Think
  • Doing

• An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Life
  • Opinion
  • Ask