"I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

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“If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.”
“The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.”

Source : "Paxman answers the questions" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2005.
“Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.”
“If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.”
“Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.”

Source : "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.
“Nature and animals, especially living with them for as long as I have - gives you the gift of yourself, gives you the opportunity to discover and experience your own individual nature within yourself.”
“You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.”

Source : Source: thebiglead.com
“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.”

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