"Excessive severity misses its own aim."

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Publilius Syrus

#Missing Quotes #Aim Quotes

“When parents want you to do really well academically, they want to avoid you getting into anything that would distract you - you know, rock and roll music, or really serious, long novels that you get so absorbed in, you forget to study.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.24, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.”
“People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.”
“To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.139, Random House
“God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.”
“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
“If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.”

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