“People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.”
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“I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.”
“It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.”
“And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.”
“[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit”
“Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.”
“There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!”
“Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.”
“If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people.”
“The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.”
“I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.”
“When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.”
“I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.”
“It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.”
“Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.”
“People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them”
“Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.”
“Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.”
“The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?”
“The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.”