"Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Passion Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.”
“We flipped over 200 counties that President [Barack] Obama won and Donald Trump just won, you [Jennifer Palmieri] think that's because of what you just said or because people aren't ready for a woman president?”
“People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.”
“We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.”
“Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.”
“There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.”
“The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.”
“The first time I had work in a public space it felt very strange to see people that I didn't know looking and, and presumably commenting on, my work. Nowadays, I'm a bit more fatalistic - they either like the work or they don't and there's not a lot I can do about that. The trick seems to be not to get too pissed on open nights so that I can answer any questions without making a fool of myself. Doesn't always work!”

Source : Source: louderthanwar.com

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