"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence."

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Ann Landers

#Humanity Quotes #Belief Quotes #Empirical Evidence Quotes

“I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.”

Source : "Ethiopian-Irish Actress Ruth Negga Believes Her Heritage Is Negatively Affecting Her Career" by Emmanuel Akitobi, www.indiewire.com. September 03, 2012.
“Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real.”
“You get as big as possible from becoming as strong as possible. When I started lifting I went into the gym with that â€˜how much can I bench, curl,Â squatÂ , and deadlift?â€™ attitude.Â Thatâ€™s when I discovered how fast my strength could increase, and it made me crazy intense to get even stronger.”
“Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”
“I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.”
“If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise. All the bands were different, and all the sounds were different. The common denominator was that it was all very young kids doing it, and doing it on their terms. But then it became, 'You should listen to this and you should wear this uniform, and you shouldn't do this or that.' It was supposed to be about not having rules, but every generation of music gets watered down.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com

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