Catherine Opie Quotes

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

Catherine Opie

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Money
  • Today
  • Want

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Be Real

• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Black

• I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Fan
  • Type
  • Biggest

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  

  Maimonides
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Different
  • Class
  • Cells

• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Father
  • Death
  • Memories

• It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Couple

• I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Children
  • Future

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Guy
  • Whatever
  • Jordan

• Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Words
  • Proud

• Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People

• One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

  

  Tino Sehgal
  • People
  • Art
  • Culture

• If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Work

• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Like
  • Start
  • Maybe

• It took off so fast. We would take a couple days off and go to a secluded place and practice. People would find out where we were and our song was making it right then. We practiced in a hotel room, and then crowds of people would come to the hotel to see us practice. It was fun!

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Practice

• There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Art
  • Gay
  • Aesthetic