"Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in."

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#Believe Quotes #Pride Quotes #Proud Quotes

“Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.”
“As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination... to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.”
“The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.”
“Life is too short for reading inferior books.”
“Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.88, Macmillan
“It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless.”
“I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis.”
“I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.”

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