#origin

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#follower #i #into #just #like

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#cannot #directed #done #employing #forced

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#alive #childish #cowardice #discover #easy

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#able #achieve #agree #am #before

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#fieldwork #folklore #i #involving #more

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#african american #always #american #another #appalachian

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #gut #heart #lost #makes

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#built #enough #i #originally #screen

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ↗

— Judith Butler

#gender #imitates #imitation #kind #original

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end. ↗

— Jane Campion

#behind #each #end #in the end #know