Barbara Kruger Quotes
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
