"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace"

-- Chuck Jones

#Ordinary Quotes #Disdain Quotes

“I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.”
“I'm what you'd call a regular guy with a big job.”
“Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.”
“Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.”
“One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.”
“I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them.”
“Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.”
“I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through ***** ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.”

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