Andres Serrano Quotes

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

Andres Serrano

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Together
  • Way
  • Stars

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Rock
  • Fighting

• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Media
  • Social
  • Social Media

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fight
  • Girlfriend
  • Told

• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Brother

• It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Art
  • Light

• By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Government
  • Years
  • Ethnic

• I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • American
  • Like
  • Looking

• No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Addiction
  • Immune

• However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.

  

  E. W. Howe

• All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • People

• It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.

  

  Edward Hopper

• My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • Family
  • Childhood

• I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

  

  Mario Cantone

• I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Movie
  • Alone

• Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • History

• I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • People
  • Faith
  • Respects

• It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Guy
  • Training
  • Spring

• Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

  

  Andres Serrano