"I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I meet a young man from Somalia. I meet a young man from Eritrea who engages with this nation with a sense of hope and a sense of desire. But we also we know that there are other elements of this nation that are toxic."

-- Kehinde Wiley

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“What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.243, Univ of California Press
“Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.”
“Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.”

Source : "Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke'". Interview With Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.
“Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talentâ€¦ this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.”
“Dont try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.”
“When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.”
“There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.”

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