"it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious."

-- Cynthia Heimel

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“Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the history of the church is clear and open and leads to faith and strength and virtues.”
“Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.”
“I don't think independance of Catalonia would have any great positive or negative impact on the rest of the world. As an internationalist, I don't really care if they are separate from Spain or not, or whether they are even richer than they already are, as I care much more about what is happening in places such as Afghanistan, Venezuela or North Korea.”
“If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.”
“This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.”
“I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being obliged to produce more cars.”
“Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”
“Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.”

Source : "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 1, Episode 2: "Deep Water", March 28, 2004.

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