"I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become."

-- Barbara Kruger

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“It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.”
“I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.”
“We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. p. 871-82, letter (1791), 1922.
“When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.”
“Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.”

Source : Marcel Theroux (2013). “Strange Bodies”, p.74, Faber & Faber
“When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.”
“It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.”

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