"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Memories Quotes #Standing Out Quotes #Fixed Quotes

“Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.”
“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).”

Source : Ana Castillo (1990). “Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)”, Bilingual Press
“Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.”
“The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.”
“I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.”
“You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.”
“Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures”

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