"All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy."

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Source : "The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos : A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity" by Pietros Maneos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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“In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.”
“I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.”
“In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.”
“I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.”
“He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.”
“I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world.”
“Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.”
“It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.”

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