"To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room."

-- Demetri Martin

#Creative Quotes #Tests Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?”
“Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.83, Routledge
“The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.”

Source : States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)
“Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.”
“You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.”
“The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.”
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1964). “Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu”, p.302, Courier Corporation
“Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.”

Source : Jefferson Davis, Heros von Borcke, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, John Esten Cooke (2017). “REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More”, p.2953, Madison & Adams

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