"If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.”
“Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having it. They didn't realize what this book succinctly displays: that the President has something far more important-CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information, and make discerning decisions.”

Source : "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.
“Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.”
“My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.”
“Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves”
“For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.”
“A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it. This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances. To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.”
“You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.”

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