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Trevor Paglen Quotes

I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Work Politics Think Political Know

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

History Texas Year Back University

Siemens is keen on all the same things the UAE is keen on.

Same Things Keen Same Things

It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.

Chance You Tax More Seems Like

I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

Matthew Desmond

American Dream College Story American

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

Light People Eating Interesting Hard

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

Love Time Comedy Long Long Time

People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem to manage to get much ground under their feet.

Family Home Business People Feet

I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.

Children Plants World Survive Trees

Not every director does this, but I did: I made a list of every shot you're going to set up for every scene in the script.

You Director Up Going Set Made

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

Food Together Energy Security Linked

With 'Nighty Night' series one, Oprah Winfrey's channel took it on, so she must have liked it.

Night She Must Liked Took Channel

Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.

Water Law Impossible Trying Flow

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