"My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics."

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Source : "Kemp Won't Enter 1996 Primaries" by Dan Balz, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 1995.

Jack Kemp

#Passion Quotes #Ideas Quotes #My Passion Quotes

“When I gave up me, I became more. I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I came to understand that life is a team game...And you know what?...I've found most people aren't team players. They don't realize that life is the only game in town. Someone should tell them. It has made all the difference in the world to me.”
“I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.”
“that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.”
“Layer by layer art strips life bare.”

Source : Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago
“MÃ©ret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, or similar Dadaist hangouts in Basel, where you could normally get away with these things, you were truly a provocateur.”
“My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.”
“Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things ... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.”

Source : "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (The Sunrise Collector: What to Do till Your Horoscope Gets There)". Book by Peg Bracken (Fawcett Crest edition, p. 37), 1969.
“Chaos and Order combined equal Balance.”

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