#selves

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#celebrity #conditions #culture #deal #forces

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#could #everything #just #know #make

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cannot #discover #help #only #over it

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#authority #bound #consider #constrain #experiment

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. ↗

— Liam Gallagher

#bunch #deodorant #get #head #like

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#dressed #had #immediately #made #outside

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read! ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#facts #read #speak #them #themselves

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#couple #find #found #had #i