"There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action."

-- Ramez Naam

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“I want to show people there's more to me than they think.”

Source : "For Rebecca Black, It's The Friday, Friday, Friday After 'Friday' Video Went Viral" by Eliot Glazer, www.mtv.com. March 18, 2011.
“Heâ€™s sort of a homeless horse,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I wonâ€™t be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I donâ€™t want that horse in my apartment.â€ â€œWho would put a horse in an apartment? Thatâ€™s dumb.â€ â€œWhereâ€™s the horse staying now?â€ â€œMy apartment.â€ â€œI can always count on you to brighten my day,â€ Ranger said. And he disconnected.”
“Sammantha: Tucker? Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him.”
“The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.”

Source : Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.21, Oxford University Press
“If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.”
“Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.”
“Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice â€¦ slave of religious fanaticism â€¦ slave of barbarity and inhumanity.”
“We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work thatâ€™s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour whoâ€™s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes itâ€™s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. Thatâ€™s enough for me, or it isnâ€™t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.”

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