"The opposite of love is fear, not hate."
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"Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it."
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"We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled."
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"Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life."
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"Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved."
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"I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap."
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"The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race."
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"See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out."
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"I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun."
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"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."
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"The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it."
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"Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile"
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"What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!""
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"When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows."
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"Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers."
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"Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity."
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"If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking."
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"Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars."
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"Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do."
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"The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped."
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