Justin Simien Quotes

I often have to play a role to get what I want in my life. At the same time, I can't do that without also nourishing who I really am and being aware of my true self and the ways in which I'm not bound by my race or sexual orientation or class or country or whatever.

Justin Simien

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With the rise of social media, it has given me an opportunity and a platform to have a voice as a blogger and as an activist, but it has also made me nervous that I might become a meme or a viral sensation, all without my consent.

Sinead Burke

OpportunitySocial MediaMeVoice

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

Ronny Chieng

SayingThinkSomeoneKnowSayHear

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

Ronan Farrow

ChangePeopleKnowBecausePotent

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

Rupert Sheldrake

TimeRandomBe DifferentYouWant

I can't get no satisfaction.

Mick Jagger

SatisfactionGet

What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.

Josh Tillman

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I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'

Doug Aitken

EyesArtBestThinkYouBack

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.

Deepika Padukone

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I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

Chili Davis

WinnerCareerImportantMorePoint

I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.

Brittany Daniel

TimeLongYouKnowLong TimeMissed

When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.

Sun Yat-sen

FreedomSacrificeFreeStrongNation

Because Laura Palmer was dead... there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me.

Sheryl Lee

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