"He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.”

Source : "Ready for our close-up" by Jason Solomons and Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than meâ€¦ and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very differentâ€¦ and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to itâ€¦”
“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”
“If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”
“There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.”
“There's action only if there is danger.”
“She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.”
“Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.”

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