"When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief."

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Source : 2001 From an interview on www.guggenheim.org, 18 Apr.

Rachel Whiteread

#Grief Quotes #Kids Quotes #People Quotes

“Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and too complex to go into here at this time, the Zionists and their co-religionists rule these United States as though they were the absolute monarchs of this country. Now you may say that is a very broad statement, but let me show you what happened while we were all asleep.”
“I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.”
“It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.”
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
“You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.”

Source : P. M. H. Atwater (2004). “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death”, p.89, ARE Press
“It never occurred to me that Iâ€™d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I wasâ€¦ well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isnâ€™t violent, he doesnâ€™t get his leg over the girl, he doesnâ€™t steal, and heâ€™s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. Heâ€™s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. Thatâ€™s not commercial. Heâ€™s special.”
“One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.”

Source : Margery Wilson (1928). “Charm”

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