"Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast."

-- Max Muller

#Men Quotes #Language Quotes #Beast Quotes

“Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.”
“The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.”
“There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.”

Source : "Fictional character: Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr". "The Gallant Hours", 1960.
“I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.”
“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.”

Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
“A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world”
“Donâ€™t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. Thatâ€™s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasnâ€™t it?â€ â€œNo,â€ I said. She raised an eyebrow. â€œIt must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldnâ€™t you?â€ Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. â€œArenâ€™t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?â€ She rolled her eyes. â€œNo, youâ€™re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.”

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