"After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see."

-- Robert Barry

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“People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.”

Source : "Holder: Still need for frank talk on race" by, www.politico.com. July 11, 2010.
“I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.”
“In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we wanted it to do for other things, because again we've used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we can read. We don't really pay much attention to the light itself. And so turning that and letting light and sound speak for itself is that you figure out these different relationships and rules.”
“Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.”
“If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.”
“To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.”
“I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.”
“Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.”

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