"The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself."

-- Rumi

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“If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.”
“Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.”
“You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.”

Source : Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.102, BookBaby
“My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
“Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.”
“What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.”
“it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.”
“Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.”

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