"Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric."

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Edward Said

“My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?”
“Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.”
“If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.”
“My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.”
“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.”
“If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.”
“Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.”

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