Amy Sillman Quotes
I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
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Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
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Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
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Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.
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'Skins' was like our uni. I'm tight with everyone from 'Skins' because we had that special experience together.
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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
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I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.
