"Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain."

-- Ellen Hopkins

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“Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.”
“You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.”

Source : Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.
“Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.”
“You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict. It feels good to be a good representation of the art form versus being the token tattoo girl. I'm just glad that people even consider it to be sexy, because I think I'm just a big nerd so it works out.”

Source : Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.askmen.com.
“It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
“I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.”
“You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.”
“Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobeâ€™s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobeâ€™s mouth were, â€˜You know I can kick your ***** one on one.â€™”

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