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've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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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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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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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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Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
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If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.
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The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.
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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.
