"I didn't want to do something typical."

-- Beck

#Typical Quotes #Want Quotes

“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.”
“As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.”

Source : Andrew O'Hagan (2010). “The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America”, p.16, Faber & Faber
“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldnâ€™t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.114, Bantam
“We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.”
“I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.”
“My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.”

Source : "U.N. Deputy Gets Fair Share of Blame in Oil-for-Food Report". www.foxnews.com. September 08, 2005.
“I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history of the decorative, patterns of cultural migration, Islamic art and design, Byzantine architecture, the annals of natural history, as well as contemporary painting. All of these things are filtered through my own sense of cultural urgency. How I proceed with the work has to do with how I respond to this instinctively chosen mass of materials. I'm weighing many things and making many decisions before I even get started on a painting.”

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