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Jessica Stockholder Quotes

I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

Jessica Stockholder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1959

Topics

Work I Am Thoughts Questions Asking

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

Women Knowledge Men Smart Stupid

American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.

Trevor Paglen

Work Intelligence I Am World Legal

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

Robyn Davidson

Life Me Think My Life Enough Give

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

Logan Marshall-Green

Brave Enough Rules Knowing Break

King Arthur was one of my heroes because he was such a marvelous, heroic, courageous, and magnificent person that I had to admire him even though I knew perfectly well that I could never be in any way like that.

Lloyd Alexander

King Person Admire Way Never Heroes

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

Lorde

Stars Live People Think Feel Look

I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.

Jason Hammel

Opportunity Me Door Night Ego You

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

Jonathan Krohn

Politics Old Years Got Eight

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Donald Cram

Children Time Decision College Never

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

Alison Mosshart

Doing Trying You Want Same Always

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin

Man Think Error Teaching Every Man

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

Richard Lamm

Change Women Future Past Think Look