"I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it."

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Source : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

Raymond Pettibon

#Ambition Quotes #Mean Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.”
“I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.”
“My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.”

Source : Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage
“There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.”
“I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.”
“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.”
“We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.”

Source : "For Young People Addicted to Painkillers, the Path Less Taken — Why?" by Stephen J. Pasierb, A. Thomas McLellan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2013.

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