"I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control."

-- Leora Tanenbaum

#People Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Damage Quotes

“The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing...”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 7, 2012.
“Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.”
“There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.”
“Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.”
“Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.”

Source : "Economics Cannot be Separated from Politics". Quoting "Declaration of Havana". Speech at Punta del Este, www.marxists.org. August 08, 1961.
“I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good.”
“Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.”
“We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.”

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