Barbara Kruger Quotes
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
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I believe our Heavenly Father’s everlasting purpose for His children is generally achieved by the small and simple things we do for one another. At the heart of the English word ‘atonement’ is the word ‘one.’ If all mankind understood this, there would never be anyone with whom we would not be concerned, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, or social or economic standing. We would strive to emulate the Savior and would never be unkind, indifferent, disrespectful, or insensitive to others.
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If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something.
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
