"Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating."

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Source : Jessica Mitford (2012). “Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking”, p.6, New York Review of Books

Jessica Mitford

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Brain Quotes

“When you think of H&M, you're thinking of something that's accessible to a broad range of people, perhaps far broader than most of these beautiful shows.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Youâ€™re like Marilyn Monroe,â€™ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous â€œThank Youâ€. Interrupting, he adds, â€˜Youâ€™re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because youâ€™re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say â€œHey! This toy is broken!â€ and toss you aside without feeling bad.”
“Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.”

Source : J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.282, e-artnow
“I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!”
“The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.”
“President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.”

Source : "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
“I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.”

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