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 went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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Females should stand by each other, especially in an industry which seems to try so hard to pin us up against each other and make us fight. It's not about that for me. I refuse to be sucked into a twisted world of insecurity and lose who I am.
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It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
