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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
- Ashamed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
- American Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.
- Attempted
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- Nov 07, 2020
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality has been so politicized such that people truly believe, mostly, that there are two versions of reality: a conservative and a liberal version. In my mind, there's only one version of reality and then those who lie about it. Much as in a court of law.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That seems to be, for me, where I've ended up, and I've been there pretty consistently since I was a teenager.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother's breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.
- Formal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
- Life Is Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.
- Authority
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classes have been hollowed out of the system.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020