Cornelia Parker Quotes

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

Cornelia Parker

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MotherPeopleThoughtTelevisionShe

When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.

Meghan Daum

TimeDecisionBetterFinalHere

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.

Ann Coulter

MirrorHatePeopleCareLipsLook

It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

Sue Wicks

BasketballHurtRoughAnyone

You can't have eyes on the wall, or the angels won't come in. That's what we believe.

Sonny Bill Williams

EyesBelieveYouWallAngelsCome

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

Robert Dallek

LifeFutureDayPeopleEndView

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Russell M. Nelson

LifeExperienceIdentityBlessedYou

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

Mary Meeker

TrainingBackWallPlaceStreetWhy

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Michael Moore

FearAmericanMediaYouPumpFull

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

Milos Forman

ParisLeftRussiansPragueCame

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

Derek Walcott

CollegeLiteratureHeritageCitizen

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

Donna Langley

WomenBusinessYouSeePassFew

As much as I love L.A., I don't want to live in L.A. I feel very congested when I'm in the city.

Colleen Ballinger

LoveLiveCityFeelWantI Feel

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