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“Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.”
Source : "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.
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“There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.”
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“It is not how tall you are, it is how GOOD you are.”
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“People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.”
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“I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.”
Source : "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
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“To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.”
Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”
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“You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.”
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“Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.”