Theaster Gates Quotes

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

Theaster Gates

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The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.

Jenna Wortham

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If you want to eat well and be healthy, there are so many different options now, and you can make a big difference even if it's committing to just one thing.

Anna Getty

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In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

Jeff Vandermeer

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Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Stanislav Grof

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I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

Steve Martin

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It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

Sid Waddell

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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Trey Anastasio

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As someone who cares about human rights, I am deeply dismayed to learn that Mr. McCain's charity has accepted money from Saudi Arabia. Their track record of oppressing women, gays, Christians, and political opponents is notoriously horrific.

Roger Stone

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There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

Ron Perlman

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Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.

Mireille Guiliano

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It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.

Lisa Murkowski

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