"Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by a racial constant. We can often explain them-in terms of contact with other peoples, of individual genius, of geography-but not by racial differences."

-- Robert Lowie

#Differences Quotes #Trying Quotes #Generations Quotes

“When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .”
“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
“Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'”
“Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.”
“[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.”
“Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.”
“I have kind of an iron stomach.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've always been drawn to dark, disturbing characters.”

Source : "Chad Lindberg Exclusive Interview THE CAPE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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