"No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Scratches Quotes

“A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.”
“Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.” “I’ll consider that.”
“Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
“It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”
“I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him”
“There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if itâ€™s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.”

Source : "Aboriginal people must get jobs, says Opposition leader Tony Abbott". www.news.com.au. June 30, 2010.
“I don't fully understand movements in the gold price”

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