"I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way."

-- Robert Longo

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“My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.”

Source : "Why Me?" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2008.
“I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.”
“My heroes were always soccer players.”
“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA
“As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.”
“Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.”
“Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1964). “One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society”
“As soon as I said to myself, "Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor," it made me so free to do anything. It made me free to not rush, to not be scared of things and say, "Oh, I have no time," or, "I'm not going to make this or that."”

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