Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces in 1968. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
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Falling in love with somebody is like a rush of heroin, and trying to break up with somebodyis like trying to kick heroin.
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For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
