"I give dignity second place to expedience."

-- Jack Vance

#Giving Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.”

Source : Roy Chapman Andrews (2013). “Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure”, p.248, Read Books Ltd
“Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.”
“We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.”
“The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.”
“The year that Rutherford died (1938 [sic]) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth. Science has lost her freedom. Science has become a productive force. She has become rich but she has become enslaved and part of her is veiled in secrecy. I do not know whether Rutherford would continue to joke and laugh as he used to.”
“Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it.”
“Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?"”
“Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.”

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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