#su

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#american #american cities #angeles #cities #consumption

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#choose #delusion #drag #especially #friends

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#face #going #guts #harsh #i

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#children #experience #i #me #sure

I'm very independent. I'm not sure how I'd deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#how #i #independent #me #someone

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#any #back #ballerina #because #become

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#guess #i #modeling #superficial #well

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#change #great #great success #had #i

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k). ↗

— Paul Krugman

#insurance #program #same #security #social

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty