"After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me."

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Source : Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com

Jennifer Tipton

#Years Quotes #Giving Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.”
“With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide,”
“When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.”
“The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”
“When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.”
“Italy is not a country for beginners.”

Source : Tim Parks (2014). “Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
“Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.”

Source : "Fun Fearless Female of the Year: Ali Larter" by Molly Fahner, www.cosmopolitan.com. January 13, 2009.
“One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.”

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