"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."

-- Goldwin Smith

#Character Quotes #Arrogance Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”
“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.”
“I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well.”
“The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'”

Source : "The new threat: 'Racism without racists'". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2014.
“Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.”
“LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love. Its the only swindler, after Judas, that can kill with a kiss.”
“If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.”

Source : "Welcome to Planet Pixar". Interview wirh Austin Bunn, www.wired.com. June 1, 2004.
“Essentially, retweets are like laughs.”

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