A Quote by Rashid Johnson

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

Rashid Johnson

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Ability Any Associated Complexity Find Humor Interesting Look Race Sort Space Still Very Very Interesting Whole

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Rashid Johnson
American - Photographer
Born: 1977

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

William James

Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a published author. What it takes is imagination, the ability to put words on a paper in an interesting, perhaps even unique way, the fortitude to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and polish, edit, polish, edit until the story sort of sings. I think everyone has a story inside him, but only a few have the persistence and, of course, the interest, to write it down and see it through.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Christopher Heyerdahl

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.

Ben Bova

I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

Casey Stoner

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

Andrew Scott

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

Boris Beizer

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Paul Krassner

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

Casey Stoner

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

Ben Richards

There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If the race is won by our tools, then systems will eventually become easier to use and more reliable. If not, they will continue to become harder to use and less reliable for all but a relatively small set of common tasks. Given how hard thinking is, if those intellectual tools are to succeed, they will have to substitute calculation for thought.

Leslie Lamport

I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].

Erin Cressida Wilson

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

L. Ron Hubbard

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.

Ben Bova

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Andrew Scott

I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.