If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it. - Nathan Oliveira

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Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation.

Nathan Oliveira

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

Looks, Portraiture, Forget, Back, Look

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See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

Everything, Firsts, Recovery, Stroke, Strokes

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

Details, Gesture, Hang, Mind, Necessary, Reality

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

Considerable, Content, Creating, Europe, Eye

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

Actually, Desire, Paint, Painting

For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.

Beautiful, Changed, Color, Issues, Painting, Somehow

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Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

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Jean Paul Gaultier

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

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Charles Darwin

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

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Malcolm X

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

Order, World, May, Prepare, Rightful