"I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it."

-- Quentin Bryce

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“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.261, Univ of California Press
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever youâ€™ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, â€œBye. I have to go. Iâ€™m going crazy and Iâ€™m getting out of here.â€ And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)”
“Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.”
“I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that,”

Source : "Blood, Simpler" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2014.
“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
“The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.”
“Ghana is like a lion without a head”
“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.”

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