"America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality." It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past."

-- Richard Allen Epstein

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“Every day you play with the light of the universe.”

Source : Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.”

Source : "12 Quotes By 5 Female Filmmakers at Chapman: 'It's Not a Level Playing Field, Get Over It'". Stacey Snider's speech at the 13th Women in Focus conference at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 20, 2012.
“I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.”

Source : "The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.
“If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.”
“Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.”

Source : "Why Mary Quant's Swinging Sixties London Look Stills Holds Sway" by Lynn Yaeger, www.vogue.com. February 11, 2015.
“This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a human being versus as an artist, I tried to... Essentially, I did this thing called Landmark Forum. It's three days of mind-expanding, existential philosophy, like Jean-Paul Sartre for everyday living. In existential philosophy they talk about "Being and Nothingness," this idea of not putting meaning onto things, and that in that way you live more purely. In other words, we form reality from these stories that we make up about our lives.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”
“My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.”

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