"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."

-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Being Different Quotes #Half Quotes #Conformity Quotes

“Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them enjoy what I have created for them. And same thing goes for acting. I have even tried to make some Chinese dishes before. It's very difficult. That's probably why eating at authentic Chinese restaurants is part of my journey here.”
“The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.”

Source : Stephanie Mills (1990). “In Praise of Nature”, p.97, Island Press
“Never complain and never explain.”

Source : In J. Morley 'The Life of William Ewart Gladstone' (1903) vol. 1, p. 123.
“I certainly made mistakes.”
“But if there were two dogs left in the universe and it were up to us as to whether they were allowed to breed so that we could continue to live with dogs, and even if we could guarantee that all dogs would have homes as loving as the one that we provide, we would not hesitate for a second to bring the whole institution of 'pet' ownership to an end.”
“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.”
“I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.”
“Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.”

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