Mike Mills Quotes

Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.

Mike Mills

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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

John Berger

WorkCommunicationDrawingArtist

I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.

Jeremy Lin

JourneyStoryYearWorthKnowMore

I was a senior in high school, and my mom saw on the news at work that they were having an open call in New York, and she thought it's for a musical, and maybe we should go and just sort of chalk it up to a new experience... And so, we did. We went.

Meghann Fahy

WorkExperienceSchoolNew YorkMom

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

Anna Quindlen

FunHave FunSomeoneYouWantKids

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

Angela Merkel

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I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina.' When she came back, I sang it in front of her, my auntie Linda, my father, my uncle Jim, and my grandmother.

Roisin Murphy

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I've learned to respect the whimsical.

Michael Leunig

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I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

Judy Woodruff

NowWashingtonNeverRightDivided

When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

Apollonius of Tyana

SailI CanWillPraiseHimSee

One cannot control the life they are born into.

Phoebe Robinson

LifeControlBornCannot

My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition.

Syd

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I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

Peter Hammill

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