"I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on."

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Lauren Graham

#Growing Up Quotes #Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.”
“Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.”
“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.”
“Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.”
“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.”
“I wouldnâ€™t have a career if it werenâ€™t for independent bookstores.”

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