Cecily Brown Quotes
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
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Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
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Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.
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Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops. And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair. Or that the lady in question had no choice.
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It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.
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Find optimism in the inevitable.
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Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.
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Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.
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I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
