#though

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#autonomy #beyond #culture #environmental #function

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#apprentice #complete #completeness #else #everything

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record. ↗

— Josh Silver

#deep #even #great #hard #least

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. ↗

— Nate Silver

#curve #develop #games #kind #learning

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though. ↗

— Nate Silver

#anymore #baseball #because #fantasy #feel

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. ↗

— Nate Silver

#how #information #learning #means #more

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy. ↗

— Ron Silver

#easy #getting #going #i #jobs

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#cult #get #get married #i #like

I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#hate #husband #i #like #surprised

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#because #eat #good #healthy #i