"Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive."

-- John French Sloan

#Alive Quotes #Speak Quotes #Wells Quotes

“In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held in slavery and then as human chattel to satisfy the financial indebtedness of a Catholic institution. Nonetheless, the university must also put into place - as it is attempting to do - a program that both admits the horror and error of its past actions and directs its students, faculty, and administrations to an awareness of the dignity of all people, especially those who even today are often considered less than worthy of respect and dignity.”
“People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.”
“You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.”

Source : Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”
“Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.”
“There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.”
“There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.”

Source : "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.
“Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”

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