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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
Barbara Kruger
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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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Newark
New Jersey
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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.
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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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