"That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled."

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Stephen Dorff

#Feelings Quotes #Magic Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.”
“G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.”
“I've always been a huge fan of matching sets and vibrant prints.”
“Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.”

Source : Joyce Appleby (2007). “A Restless Past: History and the American Public”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.”
“I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.”
“Art is the soul of a people.”
“Start slow and taper off.”

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