Yayoi Kusama Quotes
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I think, anyone in the arts, you're self-employed; it's so difficult.
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It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
