"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."

-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

#Talent Quotes #Obscure Quotes

“The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Supermanâ€”who is only a mere superhero.”

Source : "Superhero Bias" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. December 1, 2007.
“Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.”

Source : Bette Midler (1980). “A View from a Broad”, Simon & Schuster
“We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.”
“My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?”
“So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.”
“People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz”

Source : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
“I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.”
“I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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