"Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God."
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"So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone."
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"I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital."
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"The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?"
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"... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]"
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"This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness."
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"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives."
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"The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love."
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"I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious."
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"I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?"
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"All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs."
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"Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no."
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"People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together."
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"And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce."
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"A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence."
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"Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important."
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"People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom."
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"I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous."
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"Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people."
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