"Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death."

-- Jacques Lipchitz

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“Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.”
“When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet the people live and get by every day walking in the roads, living this super simple life, and they're still happy. It is an experience that keeps you humble, puts things in perspective.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were”
“It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!”
“There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, donâ€™t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!”
“I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
“I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.”

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