"Americans want beauties, not me. Iâ€™m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Whereâ€™s my feather up the ass? They think Iâ€™m sad, theyâ€™re dumb. I donâ€™t connect to them"

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Edith Piaf

#Girl Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!”
“I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.”
“The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.”
“Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum”
“The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.”
“We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.”
“Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.10, Library of Alexandria
“If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?”

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