We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.


Edward de Bono

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CHAZ BONO
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
CHAZ BONO
I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to ri...
CHAZ BONO
I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.
CHAZ BONO
I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
CHAZ BONO
I came out around 25 publicly.
CHAZ BONO
I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I...
CHAZ BONO
Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHAZ BONO
Being self-supporting is important to me.
CHAZ BONO
I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
CHAZ BONO
I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
CHAZ BONO
People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on tele...
CHAZ BONO
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
CHAZ BONO
I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
CHAZ BONO
When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.
CHAZ BONO
Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
CHAZ BONO
I have always said that life is more important than politics.
JOSE BONO
It is good to evoke what happened, and to conjure up what might, happen again. Those who come togeth...
JOSE BONO
It could have been an accident or it could have been an attack from the exterior,
JOSE BONO
It could have been an accident or an attack. The causes have not been fully clarified.
JOSE BONO
These missions must remain separate with separate chains of command. The only thing they have in com...
JOSE BONO
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD
The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD
Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER