"What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition..."

-- Barbara Kruger

#Trying Quotes #Recognition Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”
“There are several different meanings of the words religion and spirituality, all of which are important. The whole point about an integral or comprehensive approach is that it must find a way to believably include all of those important meanings in a coherent whole.”
“My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.”
“Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.”

Source : Jefferson Davis, Heros von Borcke, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, John Esten Cooke (2017). “REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More”, p.2953, Madison & Adams
“And you? Did you find the doorknob?â€ Hadrian picked up a jug and downed several swallows, drinking so quickly some of the water dripped down his chin. He poured some in his palm and rinsed his face, running his fingers through his hair. â€œI didnâ€™t even get close enough to see a door.â€ â€œWell, look on the bright sideâ€â€”Hadrian smiledâ€”â€œat least you werenâ€™t captured and condemned to death this time.â€ â€œThatâ€™s the bright side?â€ â€œWhat can I say? Iâ€™m a glass-half-full kinda guy.”
“It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.”
“Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.”
“I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.”

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