"The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people."

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Source : Judith Rich Harris (1999). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

Judith Rich Harris

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“I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.”

Source : "Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.
“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”
“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”
“The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.126, John Wiley & Sons
“So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.”
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
“My brother, who's a few years older then me, went to college in New York. He said all of these people from Saturday Night Live do improv together in Upright Citizens Brigade, and I thought, "Oh, that sounds really cool." So when I got braces and couldn't play music anymore, I said to my parents that I wanted to go to New York and take a class at that place. They were remarkably on board with it. I got on the train, went up, took a class and I loved it.”
“Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.”

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