"Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain."

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Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

#Office Quotes #Brain Quotes #Saying No Quotes

“I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.”
“Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.”
“The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.”

Source : "Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer".
“It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.”
“There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.”
“Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.”

Source : Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
“Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.”
“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”

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