Barbara Kruger Quotes

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

Barbara Kruger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 26, 1945

Topics

PowerControlLanguageSometimes

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

Joel Osteen

LoveGoodGodDayYourselfBrother

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Jennifer Tilly

NowDeadLikeSomeCharacters

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

Jens Lekman

Make It HappenWriteHappenSomething

I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.

Jenna Ushkowitz

LoveSassyWearI Love

When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.

Steve Jurvetson

BusinessMemoryEnergyCompanyReal

We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.

Tony Goldwyn

WomenWisdomExperienceStand Up

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

Roland Emmerich

WorkPeopleYouFindExcitedGet

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

Matt Bevin

HeartChildrenThinkBloodApathy

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

Jordi Molla

WorkRespectWorldMoviesDirector

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Jorge Ramos

PowerYouCozySeeTurnUnited

If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.

Donna Brazile

GirlMeProudStrongYouKnow

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

Brantley Gilbert

MusicPeopleMeSaySongwriting

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