"To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts."

-- Judith Crist

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“I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.”

Source : Richard Pousette-Dart, Judith Higgins, Paul Kruty (1986). “Transcending Abstraction: Richard Pousette-Dart, Paintings 1939-1985”
“Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.”
“The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.”
“I hated having to be someplace on time, it took away so many potential orgasms.”

Source : Gini Koch (2011). “Alien in the Family”, p.43, Penguin
“I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.”
“I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.”
“I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television.”
“People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.”

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