"I like the idea of people having romantic tendencies towards a place they don't know that well. I think it's great. Why not? My dad's view of New York is very similar to Americans' when they talk about Ireland."

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Source : "Chris O'Dowd on the Genius of Christopher Guest, Working with James Franco, and Grafting". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2014.

Chris O'Dowd

#New York Quotes #Dad Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.”
“How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”

Source : Harold Pinter (1967). “The Homecoming”, p.52, Grove Press
“Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.”
“It would be helpful if everybody would focus on getting the right outcome from Brexit. An aggressive stand by the EU will only feed into those who promote the narrative of "better off out".”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know”

Source : Song: Could I Be Your Girl?, Album: Living Under June, 1994
“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”

Source : Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books
“... the winner is the one who believes in victory more.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

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