Jenny Holzer Quotes

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Jenny Holzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 29, 1950

Topics

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I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.

Jim Harrison

GoodThoughtI CanOutUpPretty

If I can drive down the road in my car and listen to XM satellite, and when a song gets beamed into my car, it can tell me who wrote the song and what the damn lyrics are, why, when you broadcast a digital signal of a film, can't it speak to your television to set up a list of settings to show the film in the way that it was meant to be shown?

Jeff Nichols

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Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

Jeff Buckley

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Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

Jeff Duncan

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I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'

Summer Sanders

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Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

Skeet Ulrich

LazyEveryoneReally

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

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I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They're also great manipulators. I would presume that cult leaders are identical. These sort of individuals are very strong, they have very strong charisma.

Loretta Napoleoni

GreatSmartPeopleStrongThink

I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it's been 60 years!

Johnny Mathis

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We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.

Dominique Pire

ConfidenceMenManBridgeBetter

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Douglas Coupland

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