Marilyn Minter Quotes
I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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I love cycling.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
