David Maisel Quotes
With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Always stay true to who you are - barriers can and will be broken!
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I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
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Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.
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The point here is that straight men, by definition, have nothing to cry about, ever—since, after all, the hold all the cards in contemporary society. What's bizarre is that the author of these words spent forty years of her life married (happily, by all accounts, including her own) to a straight man. The only way to reconcile such rhetoric with her actual life and feelings is to recognize that Sedgwick truly is engaged in an act of performance here—playing a role, putting one over on us.
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We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
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I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
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With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.
