Kara Walker Quotes
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.Kara Walker
Quotes to Explore
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
Vicente Fox -
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
Pat Metheny -
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Pat Buchanan -
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman -
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken -
I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
Tanit Phoenix
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney -
No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
Pat Gillick -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
Halima Aden -
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
Natalie Martinez -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
Pankaj Mishra -
I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler -
Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
Yasmine Al Masri
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
Patricia Clarkson -
I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.
Taylor Momsen -
Now I am a grandfather, I am very content. I can focus on improving the economy in Taiwan now.
Chen Shui-bian -
The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
V. S. Naipaul -
People remember the last thing you did.
Ari Graynor -
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Kara Walker