"There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap."

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Source : FaceBook post by Arlene Dickinson from Apr 09, 2016

Arlene Dickinson

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing”
“There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level but is not really anything that I care about if people get or not so I write alot of the stuff as metaphors based in Viking mythology and Viking History which is sort of my main interest in life and sort of my main atmosphere in life.”
“We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.”
“When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.”

Source : "Battleground America". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2012.
“My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family”

Source : "Interview with Robert Klein, Barbara Kline, Linda Ellerbee, Richard Haass, Larry King's Children". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.
“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”

Source : Virginia Bill of Rights article 12 (1776)
“We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.”
“You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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