Barbara Kruger Quotes

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

Barbara Kruger

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• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Dad
  • Two
  • Ever

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Working
  • Hard
  • Opportunities

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Working
  • Strength
  • Give

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Couple

• I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Father
  • My Life

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Football
  • Care
  • Easy

• It's funny being the big news every day - and the good news every day.

  

  Charlie Adam
  • Good
  • Funny

• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
  • Speech
  • Precious

• The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Bridge

• I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

  

  Dominic West
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Stop
  • Look