Cornelia Parker Quotes

Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent.

Cornelia Parker

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I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

Jennifer Damiano

SchoolMeCoolBeing DifferentYou

At their core, an influencer creates an empowering human connection.

Angela Ahrendts

ConnectionHumanCoreEmpowering

During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.

Jean Piaget

LifeEducationWhyFirstBeginHead

When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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To me, the real genius in making television for kids is making something that inadvertently - or perhaps intentionally - becomes something that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.

Janet Varney

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If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

Brantley Gilbert

ProblemsDownI CanWriteOutGet

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

Allyson Schwartz

WorkGovernmentToughConsequences

Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.

Peggy Whitson

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I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.

Tyra Banks

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We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

Todd Young

LivePowerDemocracyFreePeaceful

There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.

Ken Cuccinelli

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