"I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way."

-- Sayed Kashua

#Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Together Quotes

“Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.”
“I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can.”
“The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.”
“I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.”

Source : "Man of Vision". Interview with Sam Vaknin, samvak.tripod.com.
“It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.”
“The pain from the abuse never went away, I just embraced it to become what I am today”
“I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.”
“I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.”

Source : David Brock (2004). “The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy”, p.20, Crown

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