"Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive."

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Source : Boston Phoenix Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.

Susie Bright

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“You can't use an old map to explore a new world.”
“I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.”
“Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.”
“I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.
“Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.”
“Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.”
“It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.”
“Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.”

Source : Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.95, Abrams

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