"If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrasesâ€” They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek."

-- Ira Gershwin

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“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.”
“The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.”
“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.”

Source : Booth Tarkington (1932). “The Works of Booth Tarkington”
“Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.”
“Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.”

Source : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press
“I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.”
“I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.”
“Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.”

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