"Exceptional people deserve special concessions."

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Jenny Holzer

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”
“To all of you I should like to say that in the course of this war you will have to acquire the experience and achieve the success which alone can build up a national tradition for our Army. An army that has no tradition of courage, fearlessness and invincibility cannot hold its own in a struggle with a powerful enemy.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose (1946). “On to Delhi: 23 enthralling speeches”
“You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?”
“Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.”
“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
“I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.”
“The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a microphone on the camera and maybe even on the subject, then you're good to go.”
“If you can affect someone when theyâ€™re young, you are in their heart forever,”

Source : Mara Wilson (2016). “Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame”, p.231, Penguin

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