Andres Serrano Quotes
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'
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Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
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The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.
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I am just an artist.
