"We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all."

-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

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“Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of aÂ BraqueÂ painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.”

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.”
“I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality thatâ€™s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.”
“Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope.”
“Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.”

Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.13, Duke University Press
“Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.349, Penguin UK
“Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.”

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