"Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource."

-- Richard Florida

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“I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.”
“In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.”
“The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.”
“Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.”

Source : Pearl Cleage (2009). “Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: A Novel”, p.8, One World
“Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Critics at their best are independent voices people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers, I really do think of myself as a teacher. Newspapers that don't carry arts criticism at all while not fulfill this function. And probably their arts journalism will be deprived as a result.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.”
“Im not trying to do conceptual art.”
“I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.”

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