"Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that."

-- Nuala O'Faolain

#Passive Quotes #Active Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.”

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“Those were my children being slaughtered.”
“The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.”

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“You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.”
“I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.”
“I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.”
“My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.”
“People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.”

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