"It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be."

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Source : Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

Chelsea Handler

#Opposites Quotes #People Quotes #Claims Quotes

“What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth”
“The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.”
“I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.”
“AB de Villiers reminds me of my young days, What a Player!”
“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.”

Source : "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
“Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.”
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.”

Source : Arthur Evans (1978). “Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy”, Bookpeople
“If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.”

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