"The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city."

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Source : "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "An Affair to Remember", www.imdb.com. July 11, 1957.

Deborah Kerr

#Cities Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Empires Quotes

“Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and live in a tiled roof house, we have not accomplished his will.... We have already reached the status of a strong country in the military field, let alone politics and ideology, but there are still quite a number of things lacking in people's lives. I am trying to implement his will by solving these problems.”

Source : "What Does Kim Jong Il’s Confession Imply?" by Yang Jung A, english.dailynk.com. January 11, 2010.
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.”
“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”
“When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.”
“All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”

Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.199, Macmillan
“Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans”

Source : FaceBook post by Ben Shapiro from Jan 14, 2013
“I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.”
“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”

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