"Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didnâ€™t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didnâ€™t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression."

-- Etel Adnan

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“Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.”
“I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?”

Source : "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.
“It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.”
“The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.”
“There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.”
“One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. Itâ€™s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poemsâ€”and to peopleâ€”without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be.”
“I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

Source : "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr". Interview with Liz Welch, www.inc.com. June 2011.

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