Catherine Opie Quotes
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
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The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.
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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
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Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.
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Everyone gets criticized.
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
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Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.
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Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
