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“Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.”

“Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack Obama and all things Democratic, to advance its ultimate objective of creating a deliberately misinformed body politic whose fear, anger, mistrust, and discontent is the manna upon which it sustains its parasitic succubus-like existence.”

Body Form Existence Plans Creating All Things Ultimate Democratic Objectives Barack Irrational Syria Foxes Dissent Relentless Discontent Mistrust Succubus Modus Operandi

Author:Jon Stewart

“Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.”

Kind Born Band Ten Creating Festivals Things I Love Billboards Granddaddy

Author:Michael Franti

“It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.”

Way Want I Can Play Stories Action Wanted Games Skills Creating Driven Why Not Artificial I Want You Loops

Author:David Cage

“My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.”

Two Ideas Character Bigs Novel Creating Mass Critical Throwing Particles Fusion Big Ideas Tropes Critical Mass Fission

Author:Will Self

“If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!”

Ifs World Stories Reading Perfect Succeed Conflict Creating Utopia

Author:Veronica Roth

“The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a truly remarkable watch that illustrates our all-consuming passion for diamonds. The Hallucination has made my diamond dream a reality.”

Years Made Dream Reality Passion Watches Creating Miracle Remarkable Celebration Diamond Masterpiece Consuming Hallucinations

Author:Laurence Graff

“Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.”

Men Imagine Creating Capable

Author:Thomas Sankara

“If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Play Creating Exciting Capture Listeners

Author:Joss Stone

“In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.”

World Used Creating Astronomy Geometry Arithmetic

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.”

World Inspirational Guy Chance My Own Destiny This World Planets Creating Mma Second Chance There Is Always A Way

Author:Urijah Faber

“The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.”

Thinking World Lasts Danger Creating Fairs Architecture Parks Theme Superficial Civilisation Precursor Theme Parks

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.”

Technology Design Wind Waste Creating Bases Productions Architecture Eras Posts Housing Ecological Petroleum Utilization Food Production

Author:John Todd

“Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”

Three Process Steps Conditions Products Creating Organization Extremes Experiments Uncertainty Outcomes Something New Dedicated Creating Something

Author:Eric Ries

“My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.”

Ifs Way Looks Art Ideas Different Whole Song Creating Art Is Down And Chaos Reactions Different Ways Upside Down Tornadoes Things Upside Down

Author:Marilyn Manson

“While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.”

World Art Jobs Growth Industry Creating Small Business Art World Nonprofits Periphery

Author:Louise Slaughter

“Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.”

Spiritual Form Poetry Crazy Special Expression Creating Mediums Bridges Poetry Is Closest

Book:Crazy Wisdom

Source: Crazy Wisdom

“In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.”

School Turns Personality Creating Primaries Fake Righteous Friday Turkish Hardworking Primary School

Author:Osman Baydemir

“To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.”

Use Creating Guides Competence Corresponding Bad Education

Author:John Dickey

“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors Behinds Attention Creating Standing Overcoming Terror Convinced Phrases Mask Standing There

Author:Stephen Dillane

“I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.”

Want Use Stuff Computer Creating

Author:Paul Putner

“I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.”

Thinking Knows Way Different Next Goal Generations Creating Another Way Next Generation Blueprints

Author:Janelle Monae

“I don’t even know at what age I started, because it’s always been there. Performing … creating … it’s in my DNA.”

Knows Age Creating Performing Dna

Author:Janelle Monae

“In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.”

Thinking Needs Form Culture Fiction Conflict Creating Science Fiction Western Aliens Robots Suspicious Hubris Western Culture Creating Something

Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.”

Ifs Feels Dies Growing Dying Creating Exciting Stagnant Enriching

Author:Chris Hardwick

“The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.”

Art Happened Streets Wall Creating Investing Journal Wall Street Journal Creating The Future

Author:Joshua Rogers

“In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.”

Littles Home Lying Order Women Chance Havens Creating Survival Violent Islands Sanity Chaotic

Book:Falling Bodies

Source: Falling Bodies

“What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.”

Different Clear Planets Creating Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:James Hansen

“The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.”

World Way States Home Turns Fighting Creating Safety Chaos Versions Unstable

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.”

People Knows Lines Company Study Taken Team Fashion Design Creating Designer

Author:Bonnie Wright

“The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.”

People Way Giving Helping Christian Young Creating Tradition Helping Others Productive Fund Satisfying Giving Back Gratification American Tradition

Author:Evelyn Lauder

“My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.”

Wells Character Film Fun Roles Creating Lows Tiny Budgets Blonde Rewarding Experiences Creating Characters

Author:Alanna Ubach

“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.”

Feelings Action Happiness Success Realizing Healing Responsibility Creating Responsible Abundance Taking Responsibility Surgeons

Book:Daring to Be Yourself

Source: Daring to Be Yourself

“Not creating delusions is enlightenment.”

Creating Enlightenment Delusion

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Your emotions are your inner guidance system. They alone will let you know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health or in an environment of biochemical distress. Understanding how your thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is health-enhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth.”

Source: The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change

“Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.”

People Individual Social Realizing Company Opinion Media Creating Tools Organization Institutions Marketing Social Media Consumers Etc Spontaneous Engaging Connecting Blogs Wikis

Author:Charlene Li

“The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.”

World Next Opportunity Generations Creating Fulfilling Next Generation Glowing Fulfilling Life

Book:Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

Source: Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

“Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow.”

Inspirational Today Tomorrow Creating Capable Determine

Author:Hal Elrod

“The one thing we can count on is that time will pass; day will become night, and the sunrise will bring with it a new tomorrow. What you are doing with these precious moments TODAY is creating your tomorrow. How you spend today is the greatest measure of who you are becoming, and the life you will be living. My question to you is: what will YOU do today to become the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you deserve?”

Thinking Needs Persons Moments Today Night One Thing Becoming Tomorrow Creating Deserve Who You Are Extraordinary Sunrise Ordinary Life Precious Moments Thinking Differently Extraordinary Life

Author:Hal Elrod

“Make sure to answer these (3) empowering questions everyday (preferably in writing): Q1-What am I grateful for? Q2-What am I proud of? Q3-What results am I committed to creating today? -> Start now!”

Writing Today Answers Results Proud Creating Wake Up Grateful Everyday Committed Empowering Waking Up Early

Author:Hal Elrod

“It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.”

World Art Might Artist Creating Oneself Worthy Stealing Thieves Lack Of Confidence

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”

“[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.”

People School America Church Situation Successful Media Creating Mass Loyalty Reform Opposition Voting Patriotic Mass Media

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.”

Feels Creating Lifetime Karma Better Life Monk Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.”

Humans Community Creating Human Life Urges

Author:Tony Abbott

“I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.”

Thinking Giving Humans Whole Bits Issues Danger Creating Scientist Legs Human Life

Author:Tony Abbott

“I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.”

Want Stories Individual Building Creating Narrative Get Better Consistent Short Story Chapters

Author:David Crabb

“The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.”

People Made Two Beautiful Humanity Tree Creating Mathematics Forests Mathematical Expansion Alliances Combining Humanity And Nature

Author:Agnes Denes

“I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.”

Thinking Dream Creating Ultimate Property

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

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