Cornelia Parker Quotes
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.
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He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
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I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
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Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.
