Dawoud Bey Quotes
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.
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I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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I've never been one to crave attention, which I know means that this is probably the worst career to pick. I get anxious even when people come up to me for pictures sometimes. That's the one thing that makes me hesitant about my future. But I love music too much to not do it.
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Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.
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Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!
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One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
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No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
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I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of roaming around those wild lands, we asked ourselves why we were in business and what kind of business we wanted Patagonia to be. A billion-dollar company? Okay, but not if it meant we had to make products we couldn't be proud of. And we discussed what we could do to help stem the environmental harm we caused as a company. We talked about the values we had in common, and the shared culture that had brought everyone to Patagonia, Inc., and not another company.
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I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
