"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism."

-- Mark Rothko

#Essence Quotes #Long Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.”
“The future just isn't what it used to be”
“We wanted to not necessarily tell the story of the video or the song, but create an ambience. And I think now, I think that's gone now. There's nothing wrong with that. But I think we were all trying to make mini feature films. I remember when we were making the Duran videos, I would crop the top and bottom of the screen with black. So that it looked more like cinema.”
“Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.”
“Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.”

Source : Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.
“A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.”

Source : John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.29, Mercer University Press
“I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.”
“There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me right now, and school me on some things I've never known, and that's amazing, you are a scholar, you are wise, you are educated. But the unfortunate thing is also the reality, and the fact is, millions of people might not even know who these educated feminists are - hundreds will, thousands maybe.”

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