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“Appreciate your flaws to reach the potential of your greatness.”
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“Fearlessness can be its own form of power.”
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“One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome”
Source : Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”
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“Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.”
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“It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“You can do anything you put your mind to, and you can do it in stilettos.”
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“You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."”
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“L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.”
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“The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.”
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“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”
Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
