"There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful."

-- Marcia Angell

#Powerful Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Arrogance Quotes

“More stuff and more money don't bring more happiness.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.
“I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.”
“The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.”

Source : "The Doomsday Lobby: Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors". Book by James T. Bennett, p. 70, September 11, 2010.
“You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.”
“Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.”
“Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.”
“How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?”

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