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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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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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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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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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.
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When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.
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Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
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Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.
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I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.
