"Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what."

-- Laura Antoniou

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“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
“Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.”
“It's always darkness before the dawn.”

Source : "Song: 'Shake It Out!'". 2011.
“Pretension is nothing; power is everything.”
“I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
“Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.”
“My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'”
“He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera.... This leads to the paradox that the more people shoot photographs, the less they are capable of deciphering them.”

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