Kara Walker Quotes
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
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We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
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Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
