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Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#daughters #grow #grow up #models #mothers

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#art #dazzling #glorious #level #literature

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#as far as #far #go #hypothesis #more

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#behind #certain #certain point #did #glad

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#am #come #comes #enough #good

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#harassment #impunity #inflict #kind #man

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#about #africa #ago #clinton #disappointed