"I think that a lot of people do have a physical Ithaca, but I don't think that I do and I think that a lot of people do not. This depends on your values and the circumstances of your life. My Ithaca is in the Mental realm and this doesn't mean that you don't have to go back to it."

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Robert Dessaix

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 22, 2012.
“I love getting out on the streets and helping people.”
“A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.”
“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”
“I'm a big old romantic.”
“The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.”

Source : The Importance of Living ch. 9 (1938)
“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”
“Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.”

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