George C. Wolfe Quotes

I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

George C. Wolfe

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

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• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

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• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

  

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• I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

  

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• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  

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• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

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• I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

  

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• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

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• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

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• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

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• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

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• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

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• Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

  

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• I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.

  

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• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

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• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  

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• I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so that must be really bad for you.' No, I benefited from it.

  

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• People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

  

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• I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

  

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• I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Black
  • Earth