"I started making work, and it's like, yes you are calling out all of these things that are part of your memory, your body's memory, things that have gone through your pores, what you've seen, what you've experienced, and you spill them out without thinking. I don't think so much about, "Okay, I'm going to make work, and it's going to be about this." It's just going to come out."

-- Leonardo Drew

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Gone Quotes

“The reality is that most gay couples don't want to adopt a child. Those who do, though, are often prepared to devote themselves entirely to their adoptive child.”

Source : "On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". SPIEGEL interview, www.transcend.org. November 23, 2012.
“De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'”

Source : W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.395, Courier Corporation
“Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.”
“Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.”
“I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search ...”

Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”
“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
“You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.”
“You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other peopleâ€™s sufferings and not your own.”

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