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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
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No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.
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There is nobody who would want, in any way, to lose what Paul Volcker won for the American people by fighting inflation and achieving price stability.
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As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
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I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.
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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.
