"We all live in an ongoing series of calamities. I don't know of any individual who doesn't have a series of calamities. Life doesn't operate where, you make a certain amount of money, you pay your bills, you move on from day-to-day-to-day. No! What happens is, you make your money, you pay your bills, and then a new bill comes up that's completely unexpected."

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Neal Gabler

#Moving Quotes #Unexpected Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”

Source : Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.
“There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.”
“Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.”
“The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”
“[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.”
“I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.”
“You don't get paid for being brave!”
“Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?”

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