Alicia Garza Quotes
Black Trans Lives Matter, to me, is really different. I think it speaks most directly to the marginalization and disenfranchisement of trans people within the black community.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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In college, one of my favorite classes was a six-week class watching horror movies. 'The Bad Seed' was one of them and was the first time I had seen it, and I really fell in love with it.
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The laws of this world are for children.
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If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.
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Black Trans Lives Matter, to me, is really different. I think it speaks most directly to the marginalization and disenfranchisement of trans people within the black community.
