"I never really felt aware of my gender, being a woman, and whether that was in my favor or not. Because there's nothing I can do about that. I'm also really grateful to my parents for having brought me up to feel that equality is just something you take for granted. I hope that our generation will really change that. I think there's a long way to go."

-- Thea Sharrock

#Grateful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?”
“Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.”
“The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself.”

Source : Charles Henry Mackintosh (2012). “Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume 2: Exodus”, p.49, Lulu Press, Inc
“The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for todayâ€™s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.”

Source : Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.27, Peachpit Press
“The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.”
“Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.”
“I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”

Source : Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.993, Courier Corporation
“Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.”

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