"One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the ability to engage the world in all of its myriad purposes, transformations, and incarnations."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.”

Source : "French president's plan to write off homework draws criticism", www.foxnews.com. December 03, 2012.
“As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.”

Source : "From "One Week" to 14 Albums: The Barenaked Ladies Still Rocking Strong and Silly After 27 Years". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 17, 2015.
“Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.”
“When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.”
“Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.”
“Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.”

Source : Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
“Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real pensions will fall. That is preprogrammed old-age poverty. When it comes to wage fairness: It was Ms. Merkel herself who blocked the establishment of a right to return to a fulltime job after going part time for a period. Yet everyone keeps saying that our platform is identical to that of the conservatives. It's crazy.”

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