Barbara Kruger Quotes
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.
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All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
