"Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many of us Australia is just there but how many of us have really seen it, have seen Kakadu or Kings Canyon? I know I hope to at some stage, to see Uluru at sunset and the ancient art in the Abrakurrie caves. I think it's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for."

-- Mick Dodson

#Art Quotes #Kings Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.”
“Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.”
“WeÂ control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.”
“Necessity knows no rules.”
“Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.”

Source : "India's unfair obsession with lighter skin" by Monisha Rajesh, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2013.
“If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?”
“When I did The X-Files, there was certainly less of that because the script was as it was and it was such a wonderful script and it was quite complex and there wasn't a hell of a lot of improvising I could do to bring to the table, but I guess what I did bring was a sense of self and that the reason I was cast was because I did come across as someone who possibly was only human for a short time.”
“The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”

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