"The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We donâ€™t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always â€˜in spite of.â€™"

-- Etienne Decroux

#Hero Quotes #Angel Quotes #Men Quotes

“I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.”
“Tech N9ne is worldwide, man, it's the biggest thing ever to me and if it happens to blow as big as I expect, I won't be able to go anywhere. That's what I'm prepared to do, because my goal is to get my music to the world.”

Source : Interview with Tim vonHolten, www.lawrence.com. December 11, 2003.
“Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form.”
“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com
“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed windowâ€“do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physicaly capable of no more,or does it eventualy learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”

Source : "Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.
“Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”
“The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.”
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”

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