Mickalene Thomas Quotes
I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene.
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She could only realize that she herself - her present self - was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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I don't know... Philly's a little different. It's a little bit more competitive. Everybody's got something to prove. In Atlanta, you see stars every day walking down the street; it's normal.
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We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.
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It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.
