Barbara Kruger Quotes

I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.

Barbara Kruger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SpaceEnoughSellingWithinContext

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

LifeLoveWomenMenWomanMan

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Megan Fox

WomenProblemDifferentOutspoken

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

Robert Morgan

TimeCulturePeopleStoryThinkYou

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Steve Erickson

CollegeLos AngelesLivingNothing

That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.

Steve Rushin

LoveBusinessYouMeanTopHim

In life, that is how you advance - by pushing the limits.

Riyad Mahrez

LifeLimitsYouPushingHowAdvance

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

Michael Moore

ControlAmericaWallWantStreet

It's 'LP' personally and professionally. Even my girlfriend calls me 'LP.'

LP

MeGirlfriendEvenPersonallyCalls

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

Dee Dee Myers

PowerPeopleHairYouDrunkCountry

Nashville is a pretty small place.

Chris Lane

SmallPlaceNashvillePretty

If you give me fro-yo without mangoes, you're dead to me. If you say that Hawaiian pizza is gross, we're done.

Chloe Kim

PizzaMeYouDoneSayDead

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Shaun Sipos

FriendJobPeopleStoryWeekYou

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