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Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. — Ivan Chtcheglov

I was completely obsessed with her. Addicted wasn't a strong enough word. She had surpassed my addictive tendencies, and I was full-blown obsessed. — Abbi Glines

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album. — Smokey Robinson

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are. — Roger Caillois

My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis. — Tod Papageorge

It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man. — Zach Braff

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies. — Morgan Freeman

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage. — Grace Ogot

What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers. — Timothy Gowers

Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains. — Aisha Mirza

Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization. — Zbigniew Brzezinski