Wangechi Mutu Quotes

In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

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• Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
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• All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• People like to see showdowns.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Giving
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• 'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

  

  Edward Abbey

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • World
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• I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Music

• My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Feeling

• I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

  

  Keith David

• My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.

  

  Luke Harding
  • War

• To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

  

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  • Music
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• Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

  

  Cory Gardner
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  • Money
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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Dog

• I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.

  

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  • Music
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• I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.

  

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  • Time
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• The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins...

  

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• For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

  

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  • Long
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• There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • World
  • Country
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• The information they gave us is that they travel around doing door-to-door magazines sales.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Travel
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• In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Magazines