Hatoum Quotes

#1. I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

Mona Hatoum

#2. Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

Carl L. Becker

#3. I'm really just a normal person.

Vanna White

#4. If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

Elizabeth Strout

#5. Women talk a good talk, but they still feel the need to wear heels, shave their legs, and bat their eyelashes for men. They cook, clean, raise children, and feel the need to look good in a bathing suit. Career women are not featured in the magazines lined along the grocery checkout.

Sheila Hageman

#6. The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.

Laozi

#7. To sway opinion should never be the motive of argument. I argue only for pleasure.

A.E. Marling

#8. In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Burton Richter

#9. There was something febrile about her independence that made him nervous on her behalf.

Rachel Joyce

#10. It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?

Lewis Black

#11. What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

#12. You have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

Garth Stein

#13. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Mona Hatoum

#14. It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who don't like or understand him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne