"I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Simon de Pury

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“If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.”

Source : Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.”
“And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.”
“I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.”

Source : "Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) Accounts for The Office's Success". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. February 1, 2007.
“There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.”
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
“I spend quite a bit of time thinking about my students. I look at them, at their work, I listen to what they tell me, and try to figure out who they might become in the best of all possible worlds. This is not easy. Students try to give you clues; sometimes they look at you as if imploring you to understand something about them that they don't yet have the means to articulate. How can one succeed at this? And how can one do it 20 times over for all the students in a class? It's impossible, of course. I know this, but I try anyway. It's tiring.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.”

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