"The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet."

-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#People Quotes #Bayonets Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.”
“The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.”

Source : Interview with Gerald Peary, www.geraldpeary.com. September 1985.
“Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are preventable' the rest of us know that the bumps and challenges of life are necessary for learning, resilience and maturation. There can be no resilience without stress, and no learning without risk.”
“I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.”
“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?”
“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.”
“I really love the story in 'Twilight.”
“...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.”

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