Francis Spufford Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. – Francis Spufford Daydreaming Quotes Imagination Quotes Selfapproval Quotes Selfawareness Quotes Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending – pretending that might as well be systematic, it’s so thoroughly incentivised by our culture. What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it’s anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.
Goodluck JonathanMedical Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that. – Goodluck Jonathan
Alberto KordaFamous I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous. – Alberto Korda
Mehcad Brooks I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don’t pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice. – Mehcad Brooks
Antonin Scalia Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn’t just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea – I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever. – Antonin Scalia
Genesis P-Orridge Celebrity haircuts are one of the great perks of even a little media profile. – Genesis P-Orridge
Ivo Graham I’m a better writer than a performer. Everyone wants to feel like they’re a bit of a polymath, and I certainly feel that. – Ivo Graham
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