Cornelia Parker Quotes

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

Cornelia Parker

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The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

Joe Paterno

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It's when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That's the kind of stuff that I insulate myself from. All of that is not very interesting or helpful, but we have critics who sometimes really love us or sometimes don't, and it's really interesting for me to see what they don't like about it.

Jennifer Konner

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The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.

John Gregory Dunne

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There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

Stephen Colbert

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Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

Tom Hollander

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When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

Robin Williams

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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

Dennis Flanagan

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My father didn't want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.

Chloe Kim

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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Cordell Hull

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Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

Alice Morse Earle

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The personal is political, but only to a point.

Susan Estrich

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