"We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong."

-- Lord Acton

#Made Quotes #Cases Quotes #Not Sure Quotes

“We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.”
“The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.”
“I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don't want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That's very important to me.”
“Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.”

Source : Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.32, Canongate Books
“I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.”
“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.”
“I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.”
“I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 31, 2010

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