"Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity."

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Source : Neil Simon (1988). “Biloxi Blues”, Signet

Neil Simon

#Mediocrity Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”
“At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.”
“We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”
“I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.”
“Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”
“I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.”

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