Betye Saar Quotes

I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

Betye Saar

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• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
  • Money
  • America
  • Guy

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Start

• I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Dad

• You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget traditional character assassination; if you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • Drug
  • Celebrity

• The language of communication will always need to be renewed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Communication

• The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • American
  • America
  • Dream

• Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Mind
  • Business

• Angry people are not beautiful.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Angry

• Honestly, I enjoy nothing more than two Republicans going after each other.

  

  James Carville

• How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Style

• It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Good
  • Stupid

• To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

  

  Alice Englert

• Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Time
  • Bad

• I don't really care how I sound.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Care
  • Sound
  • How

• I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Mother

• I'm a good role model. I have an amazing marriage, and it will be long lasting. I think I'm a good mom. I could run for office, no problem, because there are no skeletons in my closet.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Good
  • Long
  • Amazing

• I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add.

  

  Billy Casper
  • Wise

• The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Great

• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  

  Betye Saar
  • Technology
  • Memories
  • Reaching