"When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often â€“ most always â€“ do it anyway."

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Richard Saul Wurman

#Choices Quotes #Want Quotes

“I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd rather not label myself.”

Source : "Penelope Cruz Interview Broken Embraces". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 5, 2009.
“Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.”
“Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.”

Source : Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media
“Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be”
“As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.”
“The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.”

Source : Sauce (1977) "Daddie's Sauce"
“I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.”
“The greatest of people in society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combinations of talents. If everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combination of talents in this world, our society would be transofrmed over night.”

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