"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."

-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#Intellectual Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.”
“Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.”
“Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.”
“Surviving, that's my plan.”
“I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.”
“Today [ Sun Tzu] ideas are not widely applied, at least among Islamic dissidents, whose profligate use of indiscriminate terrorism appears to limit the appeal of their ideas rather than to "win hearts and minds," as the Vietminh and the National Liberation Front did in Vietnam so many decades ago.”
“You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into.”
“Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.”

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