"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

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Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

Norman Lear

#Dad Quotes #Kids Quotes #Race Quotes

“Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.”
“Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.”
“The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.”

Source : "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.”

Source : John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)
“Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.”
“I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.”
“art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ...”

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