Cindy Sherman Quotes

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

Cindy Sherman

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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Choice

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Morning

• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Walk

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Game

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Money
  • Discovery

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Safety

• I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Work
  • Like
  • Thought

• 'These Macedonians,' said he, 'are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.'

  

  Plutarch
  • People
  • Rude

• In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.

  

  Aaron Dessner The National
  • Work
  • Songs
  • Election

• All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.

  

  David Hume
  • Real
  • Understanding

• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Segregation

• I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • Work
  • Rude