"Humour is the shortest road from one person to another."

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Georges Wolinski

#Humour Quotes #Persons Quotes

“It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life”
“The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.”

Source : Kenneth Tynan (1964). “Tynan on theatre”
“Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.
“He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.”

Source : William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”
“Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Sep 30, 2013
“Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.”

Source : Sarah Ragle Weddington (1993). “A question of choice”, Penguin Group USA
“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated.. ..I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that (his trip to India around 1975, fh) I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.”
“As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.”

Source : "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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