Anthony Venn-Brown Quotes

Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

Anthony Venn-Brown

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• I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Advertising

• True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • True
  • Success
  • Freedom

• I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Up
  • Lost

• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Age

• I'm big on research.

  

  James L. Brooks

• It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Important
  • Women
  • Daughter

• I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.

  

  Art Malik
  • Good
  • Waiting

• When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.

  

  Freddie Freeman

• ‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’

  

  Christopher Paolini

• Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Financial

• The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Dance

• Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can plant a seed for liberation in the individual. That class of objects is called "liberation through seeing." Certain Buddha images are like that, but if it were possible, I would like to find contemporary non-traditional sacred images. Maybe it sounds pretentious, but most spiritual paths point to the possibility that we all can access the deep, absolute dimensions of reality.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Spiritual

• Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Blessing

• Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.

  

  Cheryl Clarke
  • Women
  • Liberation
  • Kept

• Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

  

  Anthony Venn-Brown
  • Butterfly
  • Liberation
  • Outing