"In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent ProuvÃ©, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back."

-- Patrick Seguin

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“[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.”

Source : "Speech delivered at Barisal on 14th October 1917",
“That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar”
“It would be an exaggeration to say Iâ€™m not afraid of death, but Iâ€™m not afraid of what comes after, because Iâ€™m not a believer.”
“Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.”
“When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.”
“Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.”
“As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work---but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!”
“A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.”

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