"I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world."

-- Gedde Watanabe

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“The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.”

Source : The Village Comedy Vol. 1
“The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls. I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot.”

Source : "Rebooting Philanthropy in Silicon Valley". Interview with Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.
“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.”
“If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.”
“It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.”
“Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.”

Source : William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.98, MIT Press
“We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word â€œhome.â€”

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