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“If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what they're doing.”
Source : "'The Center Holds' Sees Victory For Moderates In Obama's Win". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 20, 2013.
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“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.”
Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.15, Image Continuum Press
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“I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.”
Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
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“Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.”
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“The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.”
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“To say I live a cursed life is an understatement. I have to get up every day and work with people who are not as successful as me nor will they ever be as successful as me. Nobody knows the struggles I go through.”
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“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.”
Source : "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.
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“I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.”