Catherine Opie Quotes
When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
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Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
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I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.
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There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
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What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
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When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.
