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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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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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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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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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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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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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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Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.
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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.
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As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.
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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.
