"Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind."

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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Ada Louise Huxtable

#Art Quotes #Cutting Quotes #History Quotes

“My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.”
“I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.”

Source : Interview with Julie Moos, www.poynter.org. May 23, 2010.
“Not everyone voted for me, but the fact that we have so far approximately 32 seats in the 50 seat parliament demonstrates the enthusiasm and the faith and the trust the Fijian people have had for both the track record of my government and FijiFirst manifesto.”
“And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.”
“A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.”
“I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.”
“I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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