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		I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rirkrit Tiravanija 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karen Horney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Irv Kupcinet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rainbow Rowell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mahatma Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Daniel Barenboim 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tali Lennox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rachel Nichols 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ice T 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. Donald Walters 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				D. B. Sweeney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walt Whitman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jacob Batalon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nathan Myhrvold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patrick Kane 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Daniel Espinosa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Radhanath Swami 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gautama Buddha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rirkrit Tiravanija