Carrie Mae Weems Quotes
It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge - to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.Carrie Mae Weems
Quotes to Explore
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
Salma Hayek -
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
Ian Mckellen -
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy -
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion -
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
Ranbir Kapoor
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
Walter Kirn -
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel Alexander -
One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
Tahl Raz -
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
Olga Korbut -
For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
Zooey Deschanel -
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
Claude Debussy -
Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
Colin Wilson -
'This is the core of the galaxy,' Horseface said. 'This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.'
Clifford D. Simak -
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia -
Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.
Olesya Rulin -
Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.
Hans Hofmann
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The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
Bill Buford -
I just like boxing.
Kristaps Porzingis -
Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
George Washington -
It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge - to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.
Carrie Mae Weems