"that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion."

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Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

Gene Tierney

#Character Quotes #Pride Quotes #Melting Quotes

“The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters.”

Source : "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.
“I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.”
“Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.”
“There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture â€” that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1886). “Lectures and Essays”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
“Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.”
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
“Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.”

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