"No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil."

-- Joshua Reynolds

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“Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.”
“Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.”
“People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.”

Source : "Gephardt considers future", www.cnn.com. November 6, 2002.
“Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.”
“I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.”
“We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.”
“Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.”
“Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.”

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