"Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away."

-- Charles Jencks

#Attitude Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'”

Source : Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.76, Random House
“I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!”
“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”
“I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.”
“If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.”

Source : "The Promise of Africa’s Women" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2013.
“I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements...”

Source : Eugenie Clark (1953). “Lady With a Spear”
“The pose begins when you want to leave it.”

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