"I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things."

-- Bruce Cockburn

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“I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!”
“We will be whatever they need us to be. Call us emo's, liars, and cheaters...tell people how awful we are and how little talent we have...do whatever it takes to make themselves feel better because at the end of the day, we are strong, we can take it. We don't need their approval to justify our lives. Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us and they can try like hell to put out that flame but as long as in our minds we know who we are meantï»¿ to be, they don't stand a chance.”
“Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.”
“They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.”

Source : "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
“All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”

Source : Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.115, Open Road Media
“At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.”
“In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.”

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