"The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#People Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.”
“As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.”
“This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.”

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“Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.”
“Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.”
“My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.”
“I cannot...perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform...when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.”
“Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.”

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