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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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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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
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Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and analyzed, but we assume the physical spaces we inhabit are different. The data broker industry doesn't see it that way. To them, even the act of walking down the street is a legitimate data set to be captured, catalogued, and exploited.
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I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'
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Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.
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I'm confident a good Liam Smith beats a good John Thompson.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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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.
