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“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”
Source : Paolo Veronese's testimony before the inquisition in Venice, as translated by Charles Yriarte, members.efn.org. July 18, 1573. 
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“Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad,”
Source : Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009
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“If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.”
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“I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.”
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“Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.”
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“I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.”
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“What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.”
