"I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting."

-- Peter Doig

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“I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.”
“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .”
“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”
“It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”
“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”
“I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.”
“(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.”
“But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...”

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