Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
Quotes to Explore
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.
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I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
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Girls who participate in Black Girls Code think of themselves as leaders.
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
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We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
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I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
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Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
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If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
