"I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change."

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Source : "City's Best" Interview, citysbest.com, February 4, 2011.

Jennifer Beals

#People Quotes #Not Good Enough Quotes #Painful Quotes

“You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.”
“I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
“If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.”
“It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.”

Source : Richard Wilbur's National Book Award Acceptance Speech for the poetry award for "Things of This World", www.nationalbook.org. 1957.
“Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.”
“The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.”
“Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.”

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage
“Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.”

Source : A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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