"Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job."

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

Laurieann Gibson

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“Point? Maybe you aren't a Carrie or a Samantha or a Charlotte or a Miranda. Maybe you're just you.”
“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and arenâ€™t pessimistic, you donâ€™t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you arenâ€™t optimistic, you havenâ€™t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”

Source : "Paul Hawken: programming a new operating system for civilization" by James Epstein-Reeves and Ellen Weinreb, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.
“Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan
“The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.”

Source : Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.27, Hachette UK
“Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!”
“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”
“Property is only another name for monopoly.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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