"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."

-- George Orwell

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“White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.”

Source : "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.
“A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.”

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Rose (1970*). “Frankenthaler”
“To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”

Source : Tom Regan (2004). “The Case for Animal Rights”, p.53, Univ of California Press
“A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.”
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
“I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.”

Source : Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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