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“But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!”
Source : William Allen Butler (1871). “Poems”, p.72
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“I'm really passionate about music.”
Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
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“If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.”
Source : "Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995. 
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“When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.”
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“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.”
Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
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“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about....”
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“Being sexy doesn't mean you shouldn't be safe.”
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“The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.”
