Carlos Bulosan (Carlos Sampayan Bulosan) Quotes
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.
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I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right
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The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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I believe I'm an artist that just shines live - it's just something that happens.
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Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.
