Karen Tei Yamashita Quotes
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.Karen Tei Yamashita
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
Kate Micucci -
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel -
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Carlos Santana Santana -
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney -
I like that Barack got that job.
Hannibal Buress -
If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
Tavi Gevinson
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
Tatiana Maslany -
We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
Rand Paul -
Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
Rachel Sklar -
When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
Young Jeezy -
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Adam Clarke -
Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
Danica McKellar
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An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress.
Jerome Powell -
Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.
Amaury Nolasco -
My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
David Rakoff -
So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
David Krumholtz -
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
May Sarton -
I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.
Brooklyn Decker
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In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
Edwin Moses -
I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room.
Mark Rothko -
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
Chin-Ning Chu -
I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
BeBe Winans -
It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
Isaac Asimov -
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
Karen Tei Yamashita