Frases de Laura Penny

Laura Penny es periodista canadiense.

✵ 1975
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Laura Penny: Frases en inglés

“The humanities are despised because they are dangerous.”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 235 (See also: Chris Hedges)
Contexto: The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.

“"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 4

“Who teh heLL R u 2 tELL me what 2 reed or how 2 spel?”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Four, Screw U or Hate My Professors, p. 120 (spelling as per text...)

“Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 13

“It's a shame that pantyless party girls get more attention than the real heroes, the nurses and teachers and moms.”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter six, More is Less, p. 183

“We are not the adults in the sense that Kant intended, but adolescents. This is a problem, because we are the world's most heavily armed teenagers.”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Two, At the Arse End of the Late Great Enlightenment, p. 58

“All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers.”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Three, Is our Schools Sucking?, p. 90

“Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 206 (See also: Henry David Thoreau, Karl Marx, James Joyce, Herman Mellville...)

“Why clog your head with tedious facts about the past when you can simply demand an exam review sheet or consult Google or Wikipedia?”

Laura Penny

Fuente: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 23

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