"We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Insignificant Quotes

“Coercion. The unpardonable crime.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”
“I'm a big fan of Paco Rabanne's 1 Million.”
“it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.”

Source : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.266, Wildside Press LLC
“The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.”

Source : "Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts". Book by John Searle, 1979.
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
“No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.”

Source : "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. August 12, 2004.
“Well, when you think music-wise, and if you hang with me or you see me or whatever, the average person will be like 'oh yeah, she probably raps'. This is that stereotype and then I do what I do, so they're more like 'oh, I wasn't expecting this whatsoever'. This especially links with the idea of being a woman in this kind of work and within the footwork genre.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.”

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