"I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool."

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Source : "Missy in action". Interview with Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

Missy Elliot

#Genius Quotes #Want Quotes

“The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.”
“I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me”
“Ideally, nothing should be shown, but thatâ€™s impossible.”
“Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 05, 2003.
“Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.”
“The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.”
“I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.”
“My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.”

Source : George Sarton (1952). “A History of Science: Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece”

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