Mickalene Thomas Quotes

There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing.

Mickalene Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1971

Topics

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I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late.

Joe Morton

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Red is uplifting.

Jerry Lewis

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I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.

Jeff Buckley

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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

John Webster

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I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

Stephen Baldwin

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I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

Russell Smith

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As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.

Rusty Schweickart

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The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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I don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.

Diego Costa

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Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

Phoebe Robinson

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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

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Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans - these people are giants, legends; their names are household words. Of course, so's Jell-O.

Norm Crosby

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