"A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there."

-- Wangechi Mutu

#America Quotes #Culture Quotes #Influence Quotes

“I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.”
“An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.”
“I don't do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea.”
“So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts”
“Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.”
“A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.”
“Someone came too sooner.”

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