"How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school."

-- Frank Shorter

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“One night I was in bed-and remember that I'm on the second floor of a hotel-when I spotted this crab coming toward me across the floor, watching me with his beady little crab eyes. I think he wanted to get in bed with me.”
“When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.”

Source : Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.21, ECW Press
“[Identity liberalism] says, on the one hand, you can never understand me because you are not exactly the kind of person I've defined myself to be. And on the other hand, you must recognize me and feel for me. Well, if you're so different that I'm not able to get into your head and I'm not able to experience or sympathize with what you experience, why should I care?”
“I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.”
“Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.”

Source : Gail Levin, Dewey F. Mosby, Alex Katz, Picker Gallery (1984). “Alex Katz, process and development: small paintings from the collection of Paul J. Schupf '58”
“But you canâ€™t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We donâ€™t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in â€“ then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.”
“An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.”
“So to watch that production was just the most insane vision of a filmmaker being unrelenting in his will to create. Learning more about that was what we wanted to do. To find out how in God's name anyone could do that.”

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