"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."

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Dennis Potter

#People Quotes #Excess Quotes #May Quotes

“Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.”

Source : "Chirlane McCray: From Gay Trailblazer to Politician's Wife". Interview with Linda Villarosa, www.essence.com. May, 09, 2013.
“There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston.”
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.”
“Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.”
“I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.”
“Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.”
“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.”

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