"I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth."

-- Klaus Nomi

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“An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.”

Source : Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”
“My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.”
“It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.”
“The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.”
“The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.”
“Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.”

Source : Norbert Elias (1982). “The history of manners”, Random House Inc
“In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.”

Source : "Michelle Obama makes the political and personal case for four more years" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.
“The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.”

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