"Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different."

-- Damien Hirst

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“There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.”
“Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.”

Source : Interview with Lee Carter, www.hintmag.com.
“It was probably 10 at night when I started to read Donnie Darko. I get in bed and read the first page, and I go, "Hmmm. That's interesting." Second page, "Wow." By the fourth page, my heart started to beat, and I knew. It makes me cry, because I knew I had found a classic film. You just know when you get certain material.”
“I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.”
“Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.”

Source : 'Middle Age' (1964)
“Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair”

Source : Richard John Neuhaus (2001). “The Best of "The Public Square".: Book two”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.”

Source : "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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