Serrano Quotes & Sayings

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers. — Jose Serrano

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. — Jose Serrano

I have never voted in my life. — Andres Serrano

I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow. — Shea Serrano

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. — Andres Serrano

That's one of therapy's cruel aspects: the therapist is unique to you, but not the other way around. How unfair. It's the most unequal relationship you could imagine. — Marcela Serrano

Be true to your old dreams so that our world will not lose hope. — Miguel Serrano

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously. — Andres Serrano

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out. — Jose Serrano

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors. — Miguel Serrano

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. — Andres Serrano

That is the foremost fundamental law: language has the power to create reality. When spoken, a thing exists. — Claudia Serrano

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. — Jose Serrano

At the beginning of the relationship, we need to get to know the other person to insure 1) we are compatible and 2) to determine how to start the approach and begin talks that eventually lead to a relationship. Then, when we get to know the person, we can start sharing and offering what he or she needs or wants. How do people fall in love? With little details. And that same principle applies to make customers fall in love with our brand. — Francisco J. Serrano

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise. — Jose Serrano

Women among women know how not to feel alone. — Marcela Serrano

I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality. — Jose Serrano

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars. — Jose Serrano

Words are really a mask,' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide it. If you can live in fantasy, then you don't need religion, since with fantasy you can understand that after death, man is reincorporated in the Universe. Once again I will say that it is not important to know whether there is something beyond this life. What counts is having done the right sort of work; if that is right, then everything else will be all right. The Universe, or Nature, is for me what God is for others. It is wrong to think that Nature is the enemy of man, something to be conquered. Rather, we should look upon Nature as a mother, and should peaceably surrender ourselves to it. If we take that attitude, we will simply feel that we are returning to the Universe as all other things do, all animals and plants. We are all just infinitesimal parts of the Whole. It is absurd to rebel; we must deliver ourselves up to the great current ... — Miguel Serrano

DMX Death Threats Gun Death: 35, Generic Threat: 20, Beat Up to Death: 6, Non-Gun Weapon: 5, Robbery Death: 2, Death by Truth: 1 "Niggas wanna lie/Then niggas wonder why/Niggas wanna die" There are 69 death threats on DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot — Shea Serrano

[Macklemore]'s always nervous about messing up, like how a guy who's caught the attention of a girl who's too pretty for him behaves. — Shea Serrano

I wish there was a way that 1988 Ice Cube could be introduced to 2014 Ice Cube. He would be as astounded as a motherfucker. — Shea Serrano

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions. — Andres Serrano

I do not like measuring using soft indicators, like RTs or likes. I prefer the hardcore financial values. The ISO 10668:2010 is an international valuation standard that is very valuable if you are interested in how to measure a brand. — F. Marco-Serrano

The shadowy side of real life is ignored, and Western Christianity provides us with nothing which can be used to interpret it. Thus the young men of the West are unable to deal with the mixture of light and shadow of which life really consists; they have no way of linking the facts of existence to their preconceived notions of absolutes. — Miguel Serrano

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts. — Andres Serrano

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me. — Andres Serrano

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to. — Andres Serrano

We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself. — Miguel Serrano

I am an artist first and a photographer second. — Andres Serrano

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones. — Andres Serrano

This is LIFE sometimes you need to wait MORE or LESS but the sure thing is, there is HOPE. — Ariel Serrano

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. — Miguel Serrano

In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal. — Miguel Serrano

I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal ... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while. — Andres Serrano

The health care crisis that the world is facing has two interrelated sides: access to health care attention and access to pharmaceuticals. — Ibis Sanchez-Serrano

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer. — Jose Serrano

A fast note about Ice-T's autobiography: There's a section where he tells a story about hanging out with Flavor Flav that involves going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari. I suspect the phrase "going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari" is the most accurate description of Flavor Flav anyone will ever come up with. — Shea Serrano

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work. — Andres Serrano

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. — Jose Serrano

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church. — Andres Serrano

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it. — Jose Serrano

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist. — Andres Serrano

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx. — Jose Serrano

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself. — Andres Serrano

therapy and its medications are a luxury. — Marcela Serrano

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures. — Andres Serrano

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. — Andres Serrano

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible. — Andres Serrano

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano

I am just an artist. — Andres Serrano

Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has curtailed the ability of local folks here to hire immigrants, .. I really believe it starts from the top, and the policy continues to be one of ignoring people at the bottom, cutting taxes for those on the top and spending a lot of money for a war built on lies. — Jose Serrano

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa. — Andres Serrano

I like Church furniture. — Andres Serrano

Do not lie to yourself: not every penny you invest in marketing and promotion is an actual investment. What's the difference? It is easy - if you spend your precious money in a marketing campaign and this provokes increased profit, then that is well invested money. — F. Marco-Serrano

The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given. — Jose Serrano

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena. — Andres Serrano

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do. — Twyla Tharp

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work. — Andres Serrano

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times. — Jose Serrano

People have to find ways of explaining the work. — Andres Serrano

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. — Jose Serrano

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. — Jose Serrano

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people. — Andres Serrano

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants. — Jose Serrano

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. — Andres Serrano

My work is intensely personal. — Andres Serrano

I like the aesthetics of the Church. — Andres Serrano

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened. — Jose Serrano

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. — Miguel Serrano

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system. — Andres Serrano

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic. — Andres Serrano

I'm in a long-term relationship with Diego Serrano, and I'm very happy. He's the worst influence that I have ever had in my life, and I love him for it. — Cote De Pablo