"I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which Iâ€™m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I donâ€™t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I donâ€™t think anybody does."

-- Tony Kushner

#Thinking Quotes #Support Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.”
“Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what happens when we die, what will happen in the future, etc.”
“Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?”
“Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.”
“The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.”
“In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.”

Source : James Hutton (1997). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts”, p.16, Geological Society of London
“My favorite single line from the QurÂ’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another Â– because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.”
“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.”

Source : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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