Barbara Kruger Quotes
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.
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I was offered a role in the series 'Homeland,' which I couldn't do because the dates clashed with my film with the Bhatts - 'Khamoshiyan.' But I wish I had done it. Look at how much notice the series got Nimrat Kaur.
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That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
