"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

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Source : "Who Am the World's Foremost Authority? A Lesson from Professor Irwin Corey" by Jim Kniphel, www.nypress.com. January 13, 2001.

Irwin Corey

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“The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.”
“I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.”
“Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.”
“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
“Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?”
“Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.”
“You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.”
“Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.”

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