"People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise."

-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#People Quotes #Justice Quotes #Way Quotes

“A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.”
“The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.”
“I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.”
“The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.”
“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.”
“Everything is theater.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.263, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.81, University of Chicago Press
“I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project”

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