"We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge."

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Source : Fisher Ames (1871). “Speeches of Fisher Ames in Congress, 1789-1796”, p.12

Fisher Ames

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“People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.”
“Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who ... has constraints to heterosexual marriage, even a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home. The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.”

Source : "Don Quixote: A Novel". Book by Kathy Acker, 1986.
“Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.”
“As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.”
“If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.”

Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
“If you can read this you can read me.”
“Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,”
“Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thatâ€™s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the â€œthou shaltsâ€ and â€œthou shouldâ€, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.”

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