"Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out."

-- Harold Rosenberg

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“I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.”
“Now thyself is more important than â€œKnow thyself.”
“I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.”

Source : "Vanessa Minnillo: 'When I Was 17'". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 1, 2008.
“Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.”
“You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.”
“I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.”
“You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.”
“You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening. When women find the right person, on the other hand, they just... disappear for six months, then resurface, eyes shiny, and usually about six pounds heavier.”

Source : Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.153, Random House

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