"From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline."

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Robert Smithson

#New York Quotes #Artist Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.”
“During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.”
“The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I got older I became more of an urban person. That's really when I started to become more of a creative person who was interested in fine arts, painting, drawing, and music. I studied jazz for a long time. Looking back, all those things were great training.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.”

Source : "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.
“I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.”
“Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten”
“A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.”

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