"You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable."

-- Peter Doig

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“My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.”

Source : "Global oil availability has peaked - EU energy chief". Interview, www.reuters.com. November 10, 2010.
“Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
“People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
“I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.”
“Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.”
“The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.”
“A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.”
“Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.”

Source : Song: Mary Jane's Last Dance

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