"That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure."

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Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

Paula Rego

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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
“Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.”

Source : "Richard Trumka, American". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.
“...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.”
“A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.”
“In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving back to their communities just as much as they're taking away.”
“Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.”
“If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.”
“That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.”

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