Wangechi Mutu Quotes

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

Wangechi Mutu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: kenyan
  • Birth: June 22, 1972

Topics

FocusMeToo MuchStudentNewTry

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Jim Harrison

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That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Joan Baez

LoveOrganizedNonviolence

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Maynard James Keenan

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What's wrong with 'Mario Bros. 3?' Not a damn thing.

Melanie Scrofano

WrongDamnBrosMarioDamn Thing

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

Matthew Fox

FunnyLoveMyselfPeopleThinkYou

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

Michael Greger

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The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.

Marvin Sapp

LiveBestHonorSomeoneWayWho

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Bruce Vilanch

PeopleMoviesWriteUpDifferent

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

Annie Golden

TimeJobGiftYouKnowFlexible

Everybody thinks you're wrong and that you're a kid, and hence, you should shut up. Such reactions hurt me. I can think for myself.

Pratyusha Banerjee

MyselfMeThinkHurtYouI Can

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Pete Sessions

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In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

Thomas Gibson

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