Cathy Davidson (Cathy N. Davidson) Quotes
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
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The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
