"Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront."

-- Mallory Ortberg

#Reading Quotes #White Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Prayerlessness is sin.”
“Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; theyâ€™re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clotsâ€”conditions that arenâ€™t caused by vaccinesâ€”safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.”
“Iâ€™m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. Itâ€™s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, â€˜Donâ€™t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.â€™”
“I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.”
“Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.”
“I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.”
“Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold...”
“Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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