"The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive."

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Source : David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.9, Canongate Books

David Eagleman

#Lonely Quotes #People Quotes #Missing Quotes

“We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.”
“Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.”

Source : "Ricki Lake: From Size 24 to Skinny" by Roxanna Sherwood, abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2011.
“Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.”
“For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.”
“There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.”
“Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.”
“I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?”

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