"I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face."

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Source : Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, Simon and Schuster

Tim Gunn

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“Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”
“When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.
“One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.”
“Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.”
“Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.”
“I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.”
“It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.”

Source : "A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.
“Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?”

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