"Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with"

-- Benjamin Hoff

#Clever Quotes #Looks Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless, of course, the aggressive, hostile, assaultive sound actually served to express some impulse of the owner.”
“A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart....”
“Even in the most wretched life, thereâ€™s hope.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2009). “Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Broadway Books
“We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.”
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?”

Source : "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.
“Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.”
“My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.”

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