"Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers)."

-- Jerry Saltz

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“For the camera, I like the feeling of changing into different characters. Even though I'm not acting, I still have to be someone different to show the product. If I'm not being someone different, I won't find it fun. I love the shows because it transforms you into a different person. Not Malaika - it makes me someone else. Naturally, I'm quiet and crazy. But when they give me an outfit, like a very elegant outfit, it transforms me into this beautiful woman - I can feel it inside me. I like that, playing different characters. I'm really interested in acting.”
“There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.”

Source : "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.
“I've never been to Thailand and I've only heard good things about it. I really want to make my way there.”
“I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.”
“Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.”
“When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?”
“It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.”

Source : "Haywire". Book by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 215., 1977.
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

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