"The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets."

-- JR

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“But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.”
“Problem is, you canâ€™t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. Youâ€™re like a dog at the dump, baby â€“ youâ€™re just lickinâ€™ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if youâ€™re not careful, that canâ€™s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.â€ â€œBut I love him.â€ â€œSo love him.â€ â€œBut I miss him.â€ â€œSo miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.”
“Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.”
“The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.”
“The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.”

Source : "Think Like a Freak extract: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and David Cameron" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2014.
“Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.”

Source : "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Nov. 30-Dec. 6)" by Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2012.
“Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someoneâ€™s behavior.”
“Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.”

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