Nina Menkes Quotes
I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I can paint in jail.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
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While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.
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'You’re just getting old.' She gave a dramatic sigh. 'Truly, all the more’s the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man’s memory.'
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Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
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My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
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We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.
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There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.
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I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.
