"If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive."

-- Raymond Chandler

#Alive Quotes #Gentle Quotes #Deserve Quotes

“If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.”

Source : "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.
“I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.”
“I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.”
“For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.”

Source : "Hong Kong’s Democratic Aspirations Not a Threat to China" by Lord Patten, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2014.
“Melania Trump`s husband tweeted this: "Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man. He made a good decision."”
“I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and ***** made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.”
“My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.”

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