#ore

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#because #care #certain #conformity #disciplined

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different. ↗

— Delta Burke

#big #black #black hat #came #carried

Our patience will achieve more than our force. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#achieve #force #more #our #than

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#love #men #more #please #tax

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#congratulations #effect #individuals #liberty #may

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#chances #commitment #dancing #even #famous

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#care #connect #feelings #his #man

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#men #more #oppress #than #women

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#date #dealt #feminism #harassment #issues