"People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting."

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Steve Coogan

#People Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Cliche Quotes

“Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.”
“The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.”
“No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.”
“With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.”
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”
“We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity â€” a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.”
“Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.”
“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (1972). “Christianity at Glacier”

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