Kiki Smith Quotes
As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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I'm finally dating. It's fun.
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For the most part, and even with Miz, the WWE superstars are so good to the fans and everything they do.
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When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
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As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.
