"Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure."

-- Johnnetta B. Cole

#Mediocrity Quotes #Show Me Quotes #Shows Quotes

“As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible either. So I read everything he had ever written, all of his trials, everything - to search out the philosophy of his disbelief.But I couldn't find it.”
“Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.”
“There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.”
“I don't care. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview--they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.”
“The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.”
“I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.”
“Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.”
“A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little”

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