"Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it..."

-- Harold Rosenberg

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Subversion Quotes

“Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.”
“So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.”

Source : "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.
“You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”
“A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.”
“I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.”
“A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't”
“I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.”

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