My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
AI WEIWEIWe got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High.
AL-FUDAYL IBN 'IYAD -
Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
BILL HICKS -
If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.
GEORGE MICHAEL -
I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
BO JACKSON -
The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
TOM FORD -
There’s no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.
PRINCESS DIANA -
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.
BART D. EHRMAN -
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
BAYARD TAYLOR -
Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
BARRY LONG -
But I also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL -
One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Quite often very talented people FAIL because they believe they are too big to do the little things, while the most successful amongst us are quite willing to do the little things. They truly are BIG people.
BOB PROCTOR