"The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice"

-- Mortimer Adler

#Animal Quotes #Choices Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.”

Source : "Angela Bassett Talks American Horror Story: Freak Show, Filming in New Orleans, Her First Reaction to Finding Out Her Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2014.
“The executioner's face is always well hidden.”
“Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.”
“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”

Source : George Arnold, “The Jolly Old Pedagogue”
“Do you laugh in the right places? Then, youâ€™ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something thatâ€™s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if itâ€™s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.”
“I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.”
“Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.”
“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.”

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