"Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which."

-- James Cook

#Independent Quotes #Genius Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.”
“This is where hip-hop has become so doomed lately, in this confusion that rappers are street guys. You are not street guys. Get out of that mentality. It's killing hip hop creatively, and it's killing morally. I just think it's a disaster. You're not in the streets and do not be confused about that. You're in legitimate businesses.”

Source : Source: www.hitfix.com
“Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures”, p.65
“Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.”
“The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women â€“ women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in â€“ older women and younger men.”
“We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,”

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

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