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

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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
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• 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
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Friend

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• 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
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • First
  • Coming
  • CEO

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Moving
  • Practice

• For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Trying
  • Prove
  • Saying

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Imagination

• 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
  • World
  • Art

• ...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

  

  Amy Hill Hearth
  • Know
  • Answer
  • Solve

• My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!

  

  Blake Lively
  • Great
  • Dad

• For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

  

  Donald Tusk
  • Important

• I thought we played with a lot of passion and very hard. It was very important for our seniors to play that way, but it wasn't enough, especially on defense.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Important
  • Way
  • Hard

• When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Home

• 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
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Body