"Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am."

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Source : "The Irrationality of Love and Art" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2011.

Ruth Asawa

#Adversity Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #Today Quotes

“Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.”

Source : Matsuo Basho, “The Old Pond”
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
“People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.”
“You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.”
“As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.”
“No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.”
“Itâ€™s lovely to know that the world canâ€™t interfere with the inside of your head.”
“Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not study the workings of the actual economic system. They theorize about it. As Ely Devons, an English economist, once said in a meeting: 'If economists wanted to study the horse, they wouldn't go around and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, `What would I do if I were a horse?' '”

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