Cornelia Parker Quotes
I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Everything I say is true.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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The devil was the first democrat.
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We have made tremendous progress. But there are still too many kids in our country who grow up feeling like they have to hold on to this secret about who they are because, if anyone finds out it, could cost them everything.
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I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
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I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why.
