"An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself."

-- Artie Shaw

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“When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.”

Source : Steven Kotler (2011). “A Small Furry Hope: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life”, p.174, A&C Black
“After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.”
“The role of an actor is to make every character believable.”
“Killing time is the chief end of our society.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.”

Source : Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.
“Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.”

Source : Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins
“Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.”
“What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.”

Source : Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art

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