Marilyn Minter Quotes
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I am a journalist.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.
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It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.
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I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.
