"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

-- Lin Yutang

#Wisdom Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Elimination Quotes

“Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.”
“Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to “SNL” was his “Best Of” VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements, and engage with the audience.”

Source : "Taran Killam Tells Us About The New ‘SNL’ Season: ‘It’s Such A Positive Energy’". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2013.
“A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.”
“When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.”
“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”

Source : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
“Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”

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