"When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it."

-- Gerhard Richter

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“Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.”
“The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.”

Source : "Susana Martínez Tells Police to Check Immigration Status in New Mexico". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 01, 2011.
“Power to the peaceful!”
“A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just do it. I believe in happy accidents and I'm not necessarily into actors getting the dialogue exactly as I wrote it; I'm much more into them understanding the motivations and have it come out in a natural way, and maybe catch something that I didn't expect.”
“It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.”

Source : Interview with Samina Ibrahim, newslinemagazine.com. May 2003.
“How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”

Source : 1889 On suicide. Diary entry, 5 Aug.
“Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.”
“Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.”

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