"If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable."

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Source : "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

Gabourey Sidibe

#People Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Unbreakable Quotes

“I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.”

Source : Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”
“The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.”
“The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.”
“The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.”

Source : Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press
“In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.”
“Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.”
“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”

Source : Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.99, Shambhala Publications
“I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.”

Source : "Living on Earth: Helping the Prez, Greening the Rez". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.organicconsumers.org. January 16, 2009.

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