"I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it."

-- Jeff Dunham

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 01, 2011
“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objectiveâ€”even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.”

Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.”
“I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.”
“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.”
“During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.”

Source : John Frohnmayer (1993). “Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.”

Source : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press
“Trump often acts in delusional ways. I think he is a man who has always made his own rules and gotten away with it. Enough money will do that for you. However, he has also gotten away with it because he has operated in limited contexts - mostly in the realm of business.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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