"Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers."

-- Guillaume Apollinaire

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“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
“Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.”
“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the â€œlife of the mindâ€: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.”
“We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.”
“If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.”
“You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.”
“You can't go through life trying to please everyone.”

Source : "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Violence diminishes our humanity.”

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