"The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head."

-- Abraham Cowley

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“I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.”

Source : "Cozy Up to The Class' Queen of Snark!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 7, 2006.
“My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.”

Source : The Guardian, March 04, 2005.
“Nature is only another chimera.”
“To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind.”
“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”
“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”
“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.”

Source : "Astrology and Religion".
“To me, charity often is just about giving, because youâ€™re supposed to, or because itâ€™s what youâ€™ve always done â€” or itâ€™s about giving until it hurts.”

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