Will Youmans Quotes

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

Will Youmans

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Voice
  • Accept

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Fish
  • Meat

• With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Art
  • Want

• I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Home
  • Persons
  • Still

• I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country, in some sense, that if you sit at a restaurant, they're served before a Kenyan is served. If you go through customs, a white person is going to have an easier time going through customs.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Country

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!

  

  Edward Lear
  • Tree
  • Blue

• I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a strong community here so that artists don't feel pressure to move somewhere else to succeed.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Strong
  • Community
  • Identity

• If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

  

  Jay Leno
  • God
  • Apology

• No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.

  

  Annie Wersching

• I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.

  

  Jim Murphy
  • Up
  • Character
  • Action

• I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Work
  • Book

• My fans are truly my friends.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Friends

• I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Pretty
  • Rest
  • Attitude

• I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Dad
  • Lipstick
  • Halloween

• People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

  

  John Schneider
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• There’s something else that bears repeating here: Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Creativity
  • Controls
  • Pay Attention

• I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Money
  • Charity

• Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Successful
  • Teach
  • Themselves

• Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

  

  Will Youmans
  • Opinion
  • Silence
  • Creativity