"I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression."

-- Ben van Berkel

#Expression Quotes #Dutch Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection”
“I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual character and analyze the time period with comparisons to the figure and the facial structure. It helps to be comfortable with computers because the massive amount of research is kept electronically and shared with my staff this way. Very little is printed out. I work with an illustrator to come up with the proper silhouettes and details of the clothing from the time period to time period. And on and on.”
“Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position”
“Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'”
“There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arlene Dickinson from Apr 09, 2016
“One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.”
“Itâ€™s best not to experiment on yourself. Bacon practically froze himself to death in one of his experiments and died of pneumonia.â€ {Right! Bacon must be heated. Knew that already, but thanks for the reminder.}”
“If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.”

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