"Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed."

-- Bell Hooks

#Art Quotes #Reading Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Halloween this year falls on a Friday. That should be helpful for retailers because the party carries into the weekend.”
“I'm not a complicated person.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I want to be a private pop star, like Sade or Annie Lennox'". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.
“A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.”
“It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.”
“The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.”
“Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.”
“You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.”
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

Source : Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

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