Meg Wheatley Quotes
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
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We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.
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Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
