Barbara Kruger Quotes

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

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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.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  

  Walter Smith
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Management

• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• 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.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• 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.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Development

• I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Age
  • Media

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • God
  • Success

• On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don't do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Life
  • Team

• How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life

• There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • America
  • History
  • Past

• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • History
  • Scary
  • Gossip