"To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Heart Quotes #Mean Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them”
“Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.”
“And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].”
“I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.”
“There's another little vision in my life, going into a restaurant in New York years ago: All the women are sitting in their little strapless dresses with their cleavage, and there's this one woman in a sleeveless turtleneck and pants. And I can tell you that every man in that restaurant looked at that woman's arms. It was hypnotizing when everything was covered up. Just the face, the conversation - and you see the arms. And the arms and the hands become an obsession. I like that.”
“A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.”
“As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.”
“I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.”

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