“It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.” Has BeensBigsStarsDifficultSawsFeetPaintingBandJazzSizeCurrentsPortraits80sLife Size Author:LeRoy Neiman
“The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.” StillsRealityDifficultViewsAcceptingSawsJudgingScientistCatholicAcceptedCirclesTraditionalEstablishmentSurprisingOrthodoxySolar System Author:Michael Coren
“I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.” FeelsHeartFoundDifficultStepsCareersSawsNeededGet BetterFlatsPanicTherapistsMaking PeaceHeart AttackPhoto ShootsPanic AttacksMusic Career Author:Ellie Goulding
“Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.” ShouldStillsDifficultSawsEqualCapitalismTasksInsightConstructionIrrationalDifficult Tasks Book:Marx: A Very Short Introduction Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction