El Anatsui Quotes
I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But in New York City you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.El Anatsui
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
Kate Christensen -
I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
Karolyn Grimes -
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Naguib Mahfouz -
There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
T-Pain -
Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
Calvin Coolidge -
Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
Babasaheb
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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
Jane Rule -
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
Charice Pempengco -
I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
Les Claypool -
I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
Bradley Walsh -
Singing is actually my favourite thing to do in the world - so when you don't consider yourself as talented at anything academically, and there is one thing you're good at, I think it's best to follow what you're good at.
Jess Glynne -
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
Dorothy Dunnett
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I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
Lois Frankel -
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
Paul Weyrich -
Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.
Brian Epstein -
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John Milton -
I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
Claudia Christian -
The first occurrence of the maxim dates back to 1906: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften Bd. 116, Duncker & Humblot, 1906, S. 686
Max Planck
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What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they wanted to name airports after him so they can say, 'I'm coming into Reagan!'
Bill Maher -
Everywhere there is craft and technique, everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of it awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.. .All craft, technique, and artistry, like anything beautiful, results in futility and vulgarity. critical quote on Constructivism artists
Kazimir Malevich -
I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
Corneille Ewango -
You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of the other ones - it wasn't always the case that you had people the caliber of Jeff Bridges or Robert Downey, so to kind of show up and work with Jeremy Renner or Robert or with Mark Ruffalo, any of them, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, the caliber of people you're acting with, to me, is really fun. From the first day I started doing scenes with Robert, it's been one of the funnest experiences I've ever had.
Clark Gregg -
You only live once and, usually, not even then.
Michael O'Donoghue -
I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But in New York City you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.
El Anatsui