Kara Walker Quotes
I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
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It's an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
