Louise Wilson Quotes
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.
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Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth-a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.
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Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
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Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.