"I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated"

-- Toni Collette

#Glad Quotes #Isolated Quotes

“I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.”
“Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.”

Source : Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby (1992). “The Adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture”, Oxford University Press, USA
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
“Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.”
“I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.”
“Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.”
“The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.”
“The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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