"I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame."

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Elizabeth Kostova

“What did not demolish me simply polished me.”

Source : Song: Soulbird Rise, 2013
“The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.”
“We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.”
“The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.”
“La veÂ riteÂ , comme la lumie'Â re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau creÂ puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.”
“This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.”
“Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.”
“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”

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