"Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own."

-- Zelda Fitzgerald

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.”

Source : Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”
“Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.”

Source : "Kill the Indian, Save the Man". Book by Ward Churchill, 2004.
“It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.”

Source : "‘Veep’ Star Anna Chlumsky Talks TV Politics, Working With Julia Louis-Dreyfus And Still Being ‘My Girl’". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.
“Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.”
“There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now? That's the question we're only beginning to ask. Literature still has this power to do things that other forms of media don't have. The process of reading and writing and having arguments about ideas is valuable. I'm afraid it's something we're losing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.”
“Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 25, 2017
“I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.”

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