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All Quotes Collection
"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."
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"An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it."
35
"A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it."
33
"Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones."
37
"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"
46
"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."
44
"There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."
49
"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
57
"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."
54
"Lovers should also have their days off."
41
"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
63
"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."
52
"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."
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"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part."
55
"Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights."
35
"There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it."
37
"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
39
"The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful."
38
"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."
37
"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."
48
"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."
36
"Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished."
52
"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."
34
"But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?"
47
"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."
58
"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."
33
"It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem."
29
"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."
34
"I will always support legislation which respects and values life."
21
"While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice."
26
"At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart."
25
"As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn."
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