Andres Serrano Quotes

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

Andres Serrano

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Write
  • Interested

• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Die
  • Afraid

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Books
  • Before
  • Left

• I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Money

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Work
  • Picture
  • Movies

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• Someone has to stand up for wimps.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Someone

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Love
  • Rest

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Man
  • Political

• You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Political

• Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Strong
  • Growing
  • Growth

• I don't cheer when people lose their lives.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Cheer

• I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Inside
  • Feel Like
  • New Orleans

• Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Political
  • Color