"The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician."

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Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

Mickey Hart

#Art Quotes #Mind Quotes #Important Quotes

“When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: â€˜Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.â€™ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.”

Source : Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.228, Crown Business
“When men make gods, there is no God!”
“I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.”
“I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?" â€”Georyn”
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”
“Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.”
“Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is prettyâ€”I was beautiful.”

Source : Peter Evans, Ava Gardner (2014). “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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