"Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s."

-- George Nelson

#Taste Quotes #Modern Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
“In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know about stocks is exactly when they will up or go down. Over the long term, stocks generally rise at a nice pace. History shows they double in value every seven years or so. But in the short term, stocks are just plain wild. Over periods of days, weeks and months, no one has any idea what they will do. Still, nearly all investors think they are smart enough to divine such short-term movements. This hubris frequently gets them into trouble.”
“Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It requires from Us that We protect the faithful from evil and error; especially so when evil and error are presented in dynamic language which, concealing vague notions and ambiguous expressions with emotional and high-sounding words, is likely to set ablaze the hearts of men in pursuit of ideals which, whilst attractive, are nonetheless nefarious.”
“Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?”
“I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1996.
“As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.”
“I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'”

Source : "Q&A: Chris Lilley on Drag, Blackface, Teenage Girls & Confrontational Comedy". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. November 14, 2013.
“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.”

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