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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#degree #good #ground #like #love

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#acted #approach #build #creative #death

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#grow #grow up #imitates #itself #medium

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#doing #doing the right thing #i #pain #right

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#his #i #jim #liked #mother

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with. ↗

— Abdallah II

#another way #arab #arab world #brotherhood #center

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chew #dictated #fill #hunger #language

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#experiences #just #know #look #mind

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#dream #dreams #i #kids #only

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty