Kiki Smith Quotes
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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Sheer visual quantity evokes the magical resonance of the tribal hoard. The box office looms as a return to the echo chamber of bardic incantation. (p. 288)
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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.
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Of course, the morning, every morning, was full of such incidents. That was family life. They were all able to get through the day without receiving any particular wounds; every such thing left its tiny scar, but their infant skins healed with wonderful quickness.
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I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.
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As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.
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I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.
