"Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of."

-- Matthew Specktor

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.”
“Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.”
“Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (1971). “The white guard”
“It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.”

Source : "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.
“Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.”

Source : "Military Procurement Authorization", United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 1963.
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.”
“I did not think I would make the grade.”
“The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.”

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