"I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Molly Crabapple

#Kissing Quotes #Financial Quotes #Rich Quotes

“By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.”
“At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing.”
“The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.”
“In the arts there are many right answers.”
“I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.”
“The marketing of homosexuality has an agenda, and that is to repopulate their population by recruiting the children of homosexuals.”

Source : "Gordon Klingenschmitt, Former Navy Chaplain, Slams Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.
“Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94
“Iâ€™ve never known a man who loved me.”

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