"If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway."

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Stanley Crouch

#Intellectual Quotes #Subway Quotes #Highways Quotes

“There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.”
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
“The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.”
“As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.”
“Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.”
“Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.”
“Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious.”
“Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes surfing this bank from Snapper to Kirra, sometimes you don't even think what you're doing but you do it anyway ... You get to the end of a wave and go, what did I do? Sometimes you go into a totally different state of mind.”

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