"When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there."

-- Lizzo

#Father Quotes #Names Quotes #Houston Quotes

“Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.”
“the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz â€¦ anything that contains the original energy of joy.”
“I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.”
“Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yasutaka Tsutsui from Dec 28, 2016
“Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.”

Source : "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.
“Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.”
“Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.”
“When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.”

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