"I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Enya

#Unnecessary Quotes

“At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.”

Source : "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.
“Iâ€™ve never loved anyone the way I love you,â€ he whispered. â€œLucky them.”
“Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.”
“What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.”

Source : National Gallery (Great Britain), Lucian Freud (1987). “The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987”
“Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.”
“Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.”

Source : Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr
“The simple act of helping someoneâ€”with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!”

Source : Kevin Eikenberry (2005). “Vantage Points on Learning and Life”, p.11, Dog Ear Publishing
“Effort supposes resistance.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.369, Indiana University Press

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