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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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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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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I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.
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They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
