"The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast."

-- Daniel J. Bernstein

#Average Quotes #Long Quotes #Giving Quotes

“A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.”
“I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?â€™”
“I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.”
“And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.”
“Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .”
“My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.”
“Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.”

Source : Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.119, South End Press

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