Dawoud Bey Quotes
Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.Dawoud Bey
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
Victoria Wood -
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross -
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
Adam Mansbach -
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
Paloma Faith
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
Vince Cable -
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Pasquier Quesnel -
What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
Vincent Cassel -
When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
Naomie Harris -
There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
Cameron Dallas -
There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
Edgardo Osorio
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Kate Williams -
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
W. S. Merwin -
It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.
Ken Liu -
Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.
Chiang Kai-shek -
I am a Bay Area guy, no question.
Huey Lewis Huey Lewis -
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma
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One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones.
Kenneth Fisher -
I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.
Marcus Samuelsson -
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
Oswald Chambers -
I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.
David Thewlis -
Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
Dawoud Bey