"Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved."

-- Anita Diament

#Egypt Quotes #People Quotes #Lotuses Quotes

“It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.”
“I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.”
“Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.”
“This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?”
“Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.”
“When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.”
“Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.”
“The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.”

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