"I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

#Ideas Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Conservative values aren't really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is: It's an evolving, ever-changing organization, and it has not always been this radical, right-wing arm of the Republican Party, and that the history of the NRA is in fact really interesting.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common”
“Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.”
“I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files”

Source : "Ethnic Profiling, Other Issues Still Surround Wen Ho Lee Case". Interview with James Riordon, www.aps.org. July 2002.
“I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.”
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
“The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they're about to clone it... You think the Japanese of all people would want nothing to do with prehistoric animals after what happened with Godzilla.”
“While we read a novel, we are insaneâ€”bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”

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