"Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill."

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Source : "Song: 'When You Believe'". 1998.

Stephen Schwartz

“Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!”

Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.
“I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.”
“Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.”
“Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (1917). “The Interest of America in Sea Power: Present and Future”
“The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.”
“In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.”
“You know, when you see a haircut of yourself from around 12 or 13, it's rough. I also had really bad acne. Where I had to take this medicine - serious medicine - with warning on the label, like, "Do NOT take this if you are pregnant." Thank God I wasn't pregnant at the time. But yeah, I just had bad haircuts, bad acne, and bad clothes for a long time. And probably still right now.”
“The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness”

Source : "Kengo Kuma urges architects to "be humble"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. March 11, 2014.

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