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Chuck Close

"Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere."

-- Chuck Close

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“I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.”
“The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.”
“So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.”

Source : "Hobbit forming" by Tom Roston, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2001.
“Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.”
“Itâ€™s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. Itâ€™s not impossible, so I think thereâ€™s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.”
“I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.”

Source : "Interview: Matt Barr on his still-mysterious ‘Sleepy Hollow’ rogue". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 20, 2014.
“Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.”
“If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.”

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