"You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there."

-- Jane Jacobs

#People Quotes #Downtown Quotes #Rely Quotes

“Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.”
“A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!”
“That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”
“A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.”
“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.”
“I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.”
“And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.”
“Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.”

Source : "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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