mai 2013
“it could be that this is some degree of sexism. m.i.a. had to deal with this...”
– björk, on sexism in the electronic music genre
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Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life
You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try.
Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.
Children are remarkably honest creatures until we teach them not to be.
Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.
If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re wrong a lot.
Managing one’s wants is...
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went to go see ironman 3 today because i’m a good brother, now i’m going to see the great gastby sunday because i’m a good friend
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over the last semester, i’ve been very fortunate to have come in contact with a dane that lives here in the states. she’s one of my friend’s neighbors and is loving wife and mother of two. we have been communicating via email over the last couple of days about danish culture and here were some keywords and phrases that solidified my studying aboard there.
They basically think...
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“I’ve said far too much already. I should learn to say less.”
– Björk
my other blog.
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Loneliness is the deal. Loneliness is the last great taboo. If we don’t accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain’t true.
Tilda Swinton, interviewed in the Guardian
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“We started out with beliefs about the world and our place in it that we didn’t...”
– Adrian Piper, 1981
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“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are...”
– Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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“The goal is to capture what lies within us, but there’s no way of filming...”
– Krzysztof Kieślowski
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avril 2013
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[[MORE]]
discontinuing this blog until further notice check out my other blog http://napoleonshaircut.tumblr.com/
it’s basically the same content just not as organized.
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buckingham-rabbit:
everyone eventually loses interest in anything
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“It’s a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of...”
– Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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“Rap music is so diverse in its themes, its style, its content but when it...”
– bell hooks, cultural criticism — rap: authentic expression or market construct?
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Never would have guessed that my fascination with Nordic/Scandinavian languages would ever come in handy in my Latin American film studies class. This girl tried to make the argument that gender roles are normal, because she couldn’t think of any languages that didn’t separate gender through the use of he or she. And I was like Finnish has gender-neutral pronouns, hän means both...
