"The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting."

-- Julie Mehretu

#Hopeful Quotes #Political Quotes #Historical Quotes

“And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.”
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
“Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own”
“I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.”
“I was scheduled to fight in November of 2008 in a kickboxing show called XMA. There were some controversies that happened between my management team as well as some of the promoters as far as setting up the fights. There was some talk of Ken Shamrock but nobody else had talked to Ken about it as far as the promoting.”
“What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)”
“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
“It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.”

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