I paint when I cannot photograph. - Man Ray

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Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.

Man Ray

I paint when I cannot photograph.

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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

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I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

Contradict, Doe, Exist, Liberty, Real, Variety

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

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I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. . . I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

Imagination, Photograph, Photographed, Things, Want

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I`m a member of Societies of Former World Leaders. And I`ve always been sort of in favor of constructive engagement around the world. And Gary Johnson has influenced me on criminal justice reform. I think I had some influence in discussions with him about the approach to international affairs.

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Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

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Dolly Parton

I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

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Janet Suzman

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

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Walter E. Williams

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