Rashid Johnson Quotes
The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
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I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
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It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.
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I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
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I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!
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I think the one I'm most proud of as a songwriter is 'Breaking Your Heart' because it was just a different style for me. It was very - I feel like it was very old-timey Patsy Cline. It's got a very '50s feel to it, and I pushed myself to write those lyrics very intimately with my co-writer Ted Bruner.
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I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
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Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.
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I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.
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Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.
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I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world.
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The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
