"You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years."

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Source : "Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin". www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

Elizabeth Emken

#Years Quotes #Profit Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes

“A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing.”
“As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.”
“Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my imagination when I'm really focused I go into that white room and all that's there is me, my painting, and my tools. There's no distraction. When I'm really concentrated I like to have it silent but when I'm doing something that doesn't have to be necessarily perfect, I can just go for it.”

Source : Source: keymagfw.com
“Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.”
“Good literature makes your head throb heartlike”
“What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.”
“The poets are supposed to liberate the words â€“ not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?”

Source : Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville (1973). “Brion Gysin let the mice in”, Ultramarine Pub Co
“We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.”

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