What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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Kathryn Marie Hahn — the American actress and comedian who works in both film comedies and television dramas — was born on this day — July 23, 1973 — in Westchester, Illinois.
She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, and the Yale School of Drama, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts.
Hahn’s career began with roles in Crossing Jordan and the 2004 comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Since then, she has appeared in films such as Bad Moms and Step Brothers, as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe series WandaVision and its 2024 spin-off, Agatha All Along.
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Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.
~ Charles MacKay
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~ Anton Chekhov
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You have to think carefully in advance about what you’re making and how you will make it, because for both architecture and industrial design, the cost of changing things afterward is much higher than the cost of better preparation.
~ Dieter Rams
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