"I opened with Edward Kienholz's The Beanery, and that's such a controversial piece that I think that brought people right away. It was a room-size work that one walked into. It was a bar with Kienholz-type figures sitting and drinking and talking - all life-size characters in a life-size setting. The exhibition was covered in Time, Newsweek, and Life, so it had huge recognition right away."

-- Virginia Dwan

#Drinking Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.”
“The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.”
“The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.”
“Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all”

Source : Speech to secret session of Twentieth Congress of Communist Party, 25 Feb. 1956.
“Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong?”
“Some of us like to take a walk on the wild side.”
“Make sure you comfort everybody, because you have so much power. The influence you do have, make sure you use that for the right things that's going to propel you, and propel your company. It's not always about making profit. I know y'all know how to make profit, and I know that's what it's about! But I'm very happy that I can come here and tell you I'm someone that has not been driven by the profit. You can succeed with the people.”
“Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.”

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