"You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view."

-- Norman Finkelstein

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“You should see me, dressed to kill. I wear a pair of hacked-off jeans and a too-big T-shirt that I can roll up onto my head when the sun gets bad. I donâ€™t wear shoes- one, because I donâ€™t have any, and two, because you need to feel with your feet.”
“I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.”
“There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.”
“The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”

Source : Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected”, p.16, Vintage
“Photography is about being patient. I'm quiet, I watch the situation. I let things happen and photograph them when they happen; that's my approach, although trying to anticipate events at a party with lots of people is hard.”
“If you love language, it will love you back.”
“At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.”
“For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.”

Source : "Interview: Ellen Forney on Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.

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