Kara Walker Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.
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Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.
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Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.
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No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
