"Ignorance is a cure for nothing."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

#Ignorance Quotes #Cures Quotes

“Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.”
“You've got to be happy in your own skin.”

Source : "Jada Pinkett Smith: My Life With Will". Parade Interview, parade.com. October 29, 2008.
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
“I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.”

Source : "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.
“There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?”
“Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters...”
“My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.”

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