"It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are bad, and are going on right now, somewhere far away. We think, "Well, what are you gonna do?" In a way, that little instinct, that "What are you gonna do?" is the most dangerous thing in the world."

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Ben H. Winters

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Far Away Quotes

“Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.”
“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”
“The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.”
“I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.”
“I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming....Why doesn't President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union.”
“I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham to do a matinee and a night, and he said, 'Hand me that tablet up there.' And he wrote down, 'Hey, good lookin', what you got cookin'' and before we got to Birmingham it was finished.”
“I have decided not to die.”

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