"You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesnâ€™t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Niece Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Way Quotes

“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”
“In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy”
“On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?”

Source : "Outward Bound". Book by James P. Hogan, 1999.
“It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.”
“In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency to handle things as we see fit. But, in all things, regardless of whether we make the same choices or not, we are to treat each other with dignity and respect, both of which are evidences of charity in our hearts and lives.”
“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”
“If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.”
“My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.”

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