"Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come."

-- Frances Mayes

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“When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.”
“...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.”
“Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.”
“Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.”

Source : "Supreme Court in a no-win position on Obamacare?" By David Gergen, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.
“He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)”
“The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.”

Source : John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.21, University of Illinois Press
“Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.”

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