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“The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that is abstract, like an emotion.”
Source : Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge (1998). “William Kentridge”, Societe Des Expositions Des Beaux
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“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.”
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“Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.”
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“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
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“I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
Source : "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. January 5, 2012.
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“You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.”
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“The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”
Source : "Fictional character: Montgomery Scott". "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", 1984.
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“What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.”