Mickalene Thomas Quotes
I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
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80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.
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I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.
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It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.
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People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
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If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
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You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
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I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
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Accursed be he that first invented war.
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I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.
