Barbara Kruger Quotes
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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Good dreams are better than films or books.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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You lose more than you win in life, and that's OK. That's the nature of life.
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As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
