Andres Serrano Quotes
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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.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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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.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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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.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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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.
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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.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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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.
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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.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.
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Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.
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Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
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This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.
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Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
