"I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level."

-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Art Quotes #Sublime Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.”

Source : "Lesley Gore, Feminist Icon" by Amanda Marcotte, www.slate.com. February 17, 2015.
“I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?”

Source : "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.
“Almost all exploits are simple mistakes.”
“Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.”

Source : 1923 Ballads and Lyrics,'Envoi'. These lines are reproduced on the plaque erected in his honour at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame”
“We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.”

Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.196, Vintage
“One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed....”

Source : "Can you give the public what it wants?".

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