"Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, talks about the deep hatred that some Americans had for what they consider to be elitist intellectual activity. I think that's what's happening now."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Joan Wallach Scott

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“Weâ€™re more than just our dresses.”
“You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.”
“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”
“The brave person thinks of himself last of all.”
“Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it. To put it another way, the statement the image makes - not just what it show you, but the mood, moral evaluation and casual connections it suggest - is built up from those details. A proper 'reading' of a photograph sees and responds to them consciously.”

Source : "Do Photographs Tell the Truth?". 1986.
“You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.”
“I am the Ayatollah of rock 'n' rolla”

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