"Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing."

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Michael Gilbert

#Sadness Quotes #People Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.”
“Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.”
“If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.”
“Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.”

Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.
“Don't ever get wrapped up with what other people think you should look like.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film.”

Source : "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.
“There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.17, MIT Press

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