"Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer"

-- Gordon Parks

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“I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.”

Source : "Sex, Drugs, and Drag". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 3, 2011.
“The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos.”
“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Source : Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.
“If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.”

Source : "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.
“There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.”
“If you really want to know, Iâ€™d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thingâ€™s done now, of course, and I canâ€™t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
“I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.”
“If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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