Tomi Adeyemi Quotes

Children of color need a mirror to see themselves in. And then people who don't have that experience, they need a window. They need a really personalized way to see what people who are different from them are going through.

Tomi Adeyemi

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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Jerry Saltz

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I probably did pack a lifetime's work into the 1980s.

John Lloyd

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You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

Stefon Diggs

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I am the happiest Hispanic I've ever met. Truly.

Rita Moreno

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Luc de Clapiers

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I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

Lou Doillon

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Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

Jon Favreau

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All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

Jonathan Ive

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I definitely asked too many questions of my teachers and was probably a bit facetious at times.

Johnny Flynn

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Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

Christina Hendricks

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