"I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least."

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Source : "Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

Josh Radnor

#Thinking Quotes #Cynical Quotes #Negative Quotes

“In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.”
“The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.”
“Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate”
“When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.”
“Your religion is where your love is.”
“The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.”
“The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.”
“When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.”

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