"I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not."

-- Marina Abramovic

#Would Be Quotes #Billionaire Quotes #Performances Quotes

“Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?”
“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation
“Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.”
“A good strategy is not always successful, but even an "inappropriate" strategy may be an actual strategy. A "bad strategy" is one that doesn't even try to address an important challenge. Instead, it speaks of aspirations, visions of the future, lays out performance goals, or simply lists a bunch of unconnected actions.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 13, 2011
“I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.”
“What whites have rarely had to think aboutâ€”because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at leastâ€”is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.”

Source : Tim Wise (2011). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.269, Soft Skull Press

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