Pramila Jayapal Quotes
Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!
Quotes to Explore
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Fashion is one big family.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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History is the revelation of providence.
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Selbst in den äusserlichen Gebräuchen sollte sich die Lebensart der Künstler von der Lebensart der übrigen Menschen durchaus unterscheiden. Sie sind Braminen, eine höhere Kaste, aber nicht durch Geburt sondern durch freye Selbsteinweihung geadelt.
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I think I'll stop here.
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Cultural essentialism is, thus, intimately tied to power relations. Fixity, homogeneity and separateness are prioritised within an essentialist framework. Therefore, part of any effort to resist essentialism is recognising diversity within difference, contingency, mutability and connectedness.
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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
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It doesn't matter what you have if you can't protect it.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
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Someone once asked Gandhi for a sermon, and his reply was, “My life is my sermon.” In the same way, we see how Jesus chose to live his adult life as perhaps one of his most potent sermons of all. While our contemporary Christian culture places value on the unholy trinity of buildings, bodies, and bucks, Jesus—the wisest teacher who ever lived and central figure in human history—was a homeless man who instead lived his life investing in authentic community with twelve close friends. We see them wrestle with the radical nature of his message together, share meals together, serve the poor and hungry together, and share life’s burdens with one another.
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Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!
