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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This is our kind of politics-to involve the people in staging protest marches, but not in matters that concern their very lives.
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Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
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I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.
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By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.
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I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.
