"Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light."

-- Jean-Claude Ellena

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“Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.”

Source : "ESQ&A: J.J. Watt (And His New Haircut)". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2013.
“To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.”
“A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.”
“People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.”

Source : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.
“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.”
“I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!”

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