Cornelia Parker Quotes

I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.

Cornelia Parker

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ArtFireFeelWantFirstOut

If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.

Johan Rockstrom

WorldSeriousNowNeedEconomyOur

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

John Henrik Clarke

ReligionPeopleOrganizationControl

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

Amanda Seyfried

PerfectPlayLikeCharactersToo

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

Robert B. Laughlin

TruthRespectTimeIdeasConflict

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

Mike Davidson

SchoolFunPeopleWritingNowNever

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

Milla Jovovich

WorkGirlI AmStrongWhyUkrainian

I don't particularly love watching myself on camera.

Janet Varney

LoveMyselfCameraWatching

The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.

Jonathan Demme

TodayPeopleMovingMovementOff

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

Brian Kilmeade

PeopleConversationsWorldviewBooks

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Alfred Newman

PoliticsCrimePayWellDoes

My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there.

Sebastian Roche

LifeEnvironmentNiceChristmas

People like to talk about war.

Mark Zuckerberg

WarPeopleTalkLikeAbout

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