"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."

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Quentin Crisp

#Being Yourself Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Teenage Quotes

“I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.”

Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage
“I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.”
“Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about”
“During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.”
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.”

Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press
“Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around.”
“Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 04, 2013
“Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.”

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