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Lewis Thomas Quotes

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

Topics

Responsibility Yourself Society You

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Science Art Religion America Place

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Good Saying Care You Good Fortune

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Robert Pattinson

Glow Likes He Says Dad

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

People Thought Idiot Be True True

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

You Selling Want Out Something

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Live Daily Age Great Art Landscape

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Music Poetry People Me Self Comedy

In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.

Live Music History New York Walking

You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.

Yourself Trying You Perfect Loving

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

Challenge People Ideas Think You

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

Maturity Teach Outside Tribe Means

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

Life Love Beginning End Alive

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