Wangechi Mutu Quotes

I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person's madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news.

Wangechi Mutu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I AmIdeasStorySomeoneMadness

When I was a kid, I used to think about what my worth was.

Jimmy Graham

ThinkWorthKidUsedAbout

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms

HealthJealousyEnjoyTryingBad

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

Andrea Corr

LifeQueenWingsWantSameAnts

I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

HatePetNightDownNothingTry

I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.

Trent Reznor

TimeSchoolIdentityComputersYou

There is no doubt I'm learning new things and progressing with David Moyes. The sessions we have on the training ground are fantastic, and I'm learning a lot from them every day.

Robin Van Persie

LearningDayNew ThingsTrainingNew

In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.

Masi Oka

ArtistWriteOutPiecesBigStar

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

Luke Scott

LifeAttitudeAmericaYouBornWay

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Louis Kronenberger

TimeShameRealFalseWellOff

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

CreativeMePaintingWayAlways

I've had several unavoidable problems because of my athletic career.

Johnny Mathis

ProblemsCareerBecauseAthleticHad

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

Christine Quinn

WomanPeopleMeWinFeelTell

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