"What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages."

-- Jean Dubuffet

#Ideas Quotes #Moments Quotes #Stage Quotes

“I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.”

Source : "Man about the house". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.
“It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.”
“Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.”

Source : W. A. Mathieu (1991). “The Listening Book”, p.142, Shambhala Publications
“As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.”
“I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something”
“It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.”

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