"Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid."

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Source : Ken Follett (2012). “Winter of the World”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

Ken Follett

“I dont want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything thats a lead.”
“Know where your money is because we're going to see bank failures, one after another.”
“I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.”
“What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.”

Source : Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press
“Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.”
“When I visit new places, I like to see the markets.”
“For sure, sometimes I don't know what I am doing.”

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