"Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery."

-- Nell Irvin Painter

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.”
“We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (â€œThe Thingâ€)”
“I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second.”
“We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.”
“Most people actually think I'm more like my mom because we're interested in the same things.”
“It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.”

Source : Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.13, Crown Archetype

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