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I didn't want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn't walk away; he would giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful — Kara Walker

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others. — Stephen Covey

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting. — Crispin Glover

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it's not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best. — Craig Stone

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. — Georges Cuvier

Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two. — Johnny Depp

Don't be in such a rush to see how things turn out. Pave your course, adjust when you need to, and enjoy the ride. — Charles F. Glassman

Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac were all on the side of the savage. That their penny-ante gnosticism was not only perpetuated but mythologized and spread abroad as a gospel of emancipation is something for which we have the Sixties to thank -- or to blame. — Roger Kimball

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. — Jim Fowler

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for. — Wallace Stegner

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it. — Kevin Spacey

I would never disrespect anyone. — Juan Pablo Galavis

Fear! We swim in it. It's our element. Everyone that isn't scared stiff of losing his job is scared stiff of war, or Facism, or Communism, or something. — George Orwell