"I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up."

-- Jules Olitski

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“What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.”
“Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.”
“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...”
“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.”
“I worry most about proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in such a way that they could be acquired by non-governmental organizations, like terrorist groups, especially the radical groups. When a nation state has a nuclear weapon, it's a little bit easier to control the use of it, but for non-governmental groups it's much more difficult.”

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“I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.”
“I don't expect to be a â€˜leaderâ€™ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.”
“While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.”

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