"The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom."
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"Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way."
"A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself."
"The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside."
"Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you."
"Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God."
"The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him."
"We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently."
"If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured."
"Knowing how to look is a way of inventing."
"We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do."
"The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it."
"Hope is not found in a way out but a way through."
"It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around."
"Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."
"Cameras get in the way of seeing."
"Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want."
"I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely."
"The best way to be original is to be yourself."
"We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization."