"Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?"

-- Michael Dorris

#Order Quotes #Historical Quotes #Perception Quotes

“I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.”
“Sport has the power to change the world...to inspire...to unite people.”
“One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.”
“It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.”
“I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile”
“I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.”
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .”
“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”

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