"We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past."

-- David Oyelowo

#Past Quotes #Deny Quotes #Empowered Quotes

“Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.”

Source : Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.
“The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.”
“If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.”
“As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.”

Source : "Duane "Dog" Chapman: What I've Learned" by Kendall Hamilton, www.esquire.com. January 7, 2009.
“The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.”
“Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.”
“The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.”
“Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.”

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