Carrie Mae Weems Quotes
It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.
